evidence: For the Croatian government, the project is seen first and foremost as a geostrategic move that will reunite the country. Croatia’s coast is currently divided by the so-called ‘Neum corridor’, a 20 km strip of land belonging to neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina. Following the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991, Bosnia and Herzegovina inherited this territory, which had previously belonged to the Ottoman Empire. Ever since, an international border with Bosnia and Herzegovina has separated the Croatian cities of Split and Dubrovnik. [...] The inhabitants of Neum – Bosnia’s only coastal town – are a bit more ambivalent. Dario Krmek, owner of one of two fish farms in Neum, says he’s looking forward to the bridge. "Frankly, it will be better for us. In July and August, it takes up to two hours to cross the borders…so if you end up in a traffic jam, you can’t get back home," says Krmek, who lives only a couple of metres away from Neum’s northern border with Croatia. Although Krmek’s farm is quite close to the construction site, he says that so far he hasn’t seen any changes in the fish feeding activity. "From now on I will call them ‘fish from the bridge,’" he says jokingly.