Usually the breakup of Yugoslavia was compared to a failed marriage, but there is a big difference here. If you divorce, you can leave to live elsewhere, but countries cannot move to different territories. We are doomed to live with certain neighbors. We do not have to love each other, but we should be aware that we live next to each other. Minister Picula says that Croatia will demand that before visas are abolished for the citizens of FRY, Yugoslav authorities improve their control of crime, so that mafia does not become a Serbian export.
Every country protects itself with visas, and it makes sense that Croatia does the same.
However, the question is whether we can have open borders with Bosnia-Hercegovina, if a part of Bosnia has an open border with Yugoslavia. That is a complex problem that needs to be resolved in mutual relations. As far as I saw, Yugoslavia is ready to unilaterally abolish visas for Croatian citizens and that should be welcomed. That is a game of mutual conditions, but the key issue is whether the attitude of the official policy and public consciousness, in which media play an important role, will be directed towards normalization of relations and doing everything possible in that direction, or whether our attitude will be exactly the opposite, that we do not want to have anything with them and will try to reduce all possible links to minimal, existential needs of our state. That is a problem of political decisions, but also a decision of the public.