Latest Analysis from Montenegro
Symbols Row Holds Montenegrin Reforms Hostage
Six years after the referendum on independence, Montenegro has consolidated itself as a state, but dispute over symbols still dominates politics, overshadowing more important priorities.
New Party Freshens up Montenegro’s Old Politics
Positive Montenegro’s electoral hopes rest on its ability to attract disillusioned voters and abstainers and provide real economic alternatives.
Montenegro Veterans Face 'Pact of Silence'
Veterans of the 1990s wars accuse the authorities of neglecting those who were called up to fight, out of a desire to distance themselves from what are now seen as embarrassing conflicts.
Spectre of Border Changes Still Haunts Balkans
New policy paper suggesting frontiers may yet have to be adjusted in the region has revived debate on a hoary topic that never quite goes away.
Serbia Library Chief Purged for ‘Backing Terrorism’
Sacking of Sreten Ugricic for supporting a Montenegrin writer’s right to hold controversial views has drawn condemnation as a return to the worst practices of Milosevic’s Serbia in the Nineties.
‘Sanaderization’ Spreads to Montenegro
Echoing events in Croatia, corruption clean-ups conducted in response to the pressure of EU accession process are gaining strength in many parts of the Balkans.
Drive For Balkan Extradition Deal Nears End
Serbia’s initiative to establish a pan-Balkan extradition treaty may see lift-off next year - but Kosovo’s exclusion from the scheme looks like another politically driven error.
Hard Times Ahead For Crisis-Hit Balkans
A conjunction of local issues and the impact of the crisis in the eurozone have clouded the economic and political outlook for the whole region.
Balkans Loom Large in Italy’s Green Energy Goals
Italy’s need to meet its EU carbon reduction target underpins its ambitious investments in the energy sector in the Balkans and North Africa.
Jury Out On Who Will Profit From Dams
Arguments continue over whether energy from the dams will help solve Montenegro’s own power shortage – or end up being sold in Italy. Meanwhile green groups fear for the bio-diversity of Lake Skadar.
The Italy-Montenegro Cable
The planned undersea connection, running between Tivat and Pescara, is at the centre of the two countries’ power deals.
Montenegro Pledges Action on EU Corruption Concerns
After getting an amber light from Brussels, Podgorica promises to get serious on justice and corruption – the two areas about which the EU still feels deep concern.
Croatian Diva Shrugs off Attacks on Montenegro Concert
Tereza Kesovija’s long awaited reappearance in Podgorica may have delighted the Montenegrin government but her self-styled gesture of reconciliation has angered some.
Montenegro’s Green Goals Fail Test of Time
Twenty years after the republic proclaimed itself an ‘ecological state’, the country is far more polluted today than it was back then.
Satirists Feel Gagged in Ex-Yugoslav Media
Writing the wrong kind of column is a good way to get shown the door in the ultrasensitive media of today’s former Yugoslavia.
