Few took the opportunity to study the region’s complex history so that judicious inter-entity boundaries could be drawn up. If they had, the final arrangement might have done more to preserve external borders and nurture a constitutional structure that would allow the new state to be integrated into the European map.
S'ils l'avaient fait, les accords finaux auraient mieux préservé les frontières extérieures et favorisé une structure constitutionnelle permettant au nouvel Etat de mieux s'intégrer à la carte de l'Europe.