The Economist has come up with an article about Croatia and the European Union that is discussed in all the Croatian newspapers today. Although rather short, for it takes a bit more than five-hundred words, it hits many a nail on the head: stagnating economy, rising unemployment, flirting with fascism, and intolerance to everything non-Croatian. This is what the Croatian newspapers repeat with relish. They also repeat the concluding paragraph in the mighty newspaper’s article, which states that joining the Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization united the country until recently, but that such common goals are history by now. The country is thus drifting hopelessly. All this is to the point, but the short article misses much of interest. Why are widespread corruption and moribund judiciary not even mentioned? How about Croatia’s unfriendly stance toward foreign investors? And what about the country’s purported rôle in bringing the remaining Balkan countries together? But the vaunted article suffers from a much more serious flaw: it leaves the Union itself out of the picture. To wit, what about its own aimlessness? And how about the fact that enlargement is no longer a priority for the Union in spite of the powder keg to its southeast? If Croatia is bereft of worthy goals, so is the Union. Of course, none of this is even noticed by the commentators in Croatian newspapers. The old story about the blind leading the blind comes to mind.