Dragan Chovic, the president of HDZ BiH, said again what everyone in Bosnia and Herzegovina knows but officially almost no one says out loud: "The three peoples are absolutely not satisfied with the state of affairs in BiH." A statement with full weight, in the right kind of place - in Dubrovnik, at the Three Seas Initiative summit.

The statement came after the "Tradfest" conference in Zagreb, where participants pushed for the creation of a Croat entity within BiH, arguing that Croats in BiH have an "unequal status". Chovic did not respond directly to that proposal, but the calculation was clear.

"BiH has to admit that we have many problems with dysfunction and inefficiency," Chovic said. And added: "We are proposing to sit down together and find the best possible solutions." Rhetoric of diplomatic opening - but hidden underneath is the conclusion that the current institutional arrangements no longer work.

At the summit, Croatia and BiH signed an agreement on a gas interconnection known as the "Southern Interconnection". "Let this agreement be a push in the process of looking for better solutions," Chovic said. Economy and politics in one package.

For the Balkans, the message is the standard one - BiH is not stable, and everyone knows it. Whether the problem is in the structure of the Dayton agreement, in the people running the state, or in foreign interests that have divided the local blocs along lines of current and short-term accounts - depends on the angle. But the fact is that 30 years after Dayton, the leader of the strongest Croat party in BiH is openly saying that nothing works.

If the three peoples are absolutely not satisfied - when will they be? And what is the scenario if they never are?