Montenegro News

Greece's main opposition PASOK leader and Socialist International President George Papandreou on Monday called from Budva, Montenegro, on the European Union to accept in its rangs the countries of the western Balkans, namely Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, FYROM and Albania, by the year 2014, one hundred years after the start, in the ...

Albanian president Bamir Topi is hosting a meeting on June 24 2009 with his counterparts from Montenegro, Macedonia and Kosovo to discuss issues including a proposal by Kosovo head of state Fatmir Sejdiu for a "mini-Schengen visa" for Balkans countries.

Croatia's prime minister Ivo Sanader, left, reviews a guard of honour, accompanied by his Montenegrin counterpart Milo Djukanovic, on his arrival in Podgorica, June 22 2009.

Romania was one of the four countries running excessive budget deficits, the European Commission has said, giving the country a deadline to 2011 to bring it in line with European Union norms.

Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was in Podgorica. Also in diplomatic news: Turkey and China to discuss co-operation, and ICTY President Patrick Robinson says BiH must arrest war crimes fugitives.

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov Tuesday will leave for Vlora in Albania to attend the informal meeting with his colleagues from Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro, Bamir Topi, Fatmir Sejdiu and Filip Vujanovic respectively.

As with the democratic revolutions that swept Eastern Europe in 1989, it wasn't the military prowess of the western alliance bringing freedom to an Eastern European country, but the power of nonviolent action by the subjugated peoples themselv The fortress of Golubac overlooking the Danube in Serbia & Montenegro.

Montenegro has agreed to extend the electricity subsidies for its foundering aluminium plant for another four years under a rescue plan to avert a pullout by the main owner, the indebted Russian businessman, Oleg Deripaska.

Italian investors are ready to invest up to five billion euros in energy projects and infrastructure in Montenegro, the Italian minister for economic development, Claudio Scajola, said on 16 June.

'Dirty money was flown to Cyprus 178 times' THE INTERNET PAGES of the American non-governmental organisation, the Center for Public Integrity, which promotes investigative journalism, are the first to make available to the public documents pertaining to the investigation into the Montenegrin and Italian mafia for cigarette smuggling and money ...

PODGORICA, Montenegro -- Democratic Party of Socialists leader Milo Djukanovic presented his new government and its programme to parliament Tuesday , citing European and Euro-Atlantic integration as top priorities.

PROTEST: A Macedonian protests in front of parliament in Skopje in March 2009 after the legislature cancelled a debate on changing the country's name.

This week on the Center's Public I podcast, Executive Director Bill Buzenberg talks to reporter Leo Sisti about one of Europe's largest smuggling operations in recent years - a multi-billion dollar operation involving the Italian Mafia and the tiny country of Montenegro.

Sex, lies, the Italian mafia, millions of packs of Marlboro cigarettes, and billion-dollar profits are all rolled into the plot of one of Europe's largest smuggling operations in recent years, where trials in both Italy and Switzerland are under way.

A summit of Balkan leaders in Montenegro will include the presidents of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Macedonia, Albania, and Bulgaria, but the president of Kosovo was not invited, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports.

The summer issue of the Moscow Guide will be published in a full colour double issue and is devoted to the two capitals Moscow and St Petersburg.

A delegation of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on Sunday left Urumqi of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for a good-will visit to Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro and Turkmenistan.

When he was in power, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was fond of recommending books that he believed Thais should read.

Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic will kick off a two-day visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina today.

The presidents of Serbia and Montenegro said on Monday that the two former Yugoslav republics should continue to strengthen their traditionally good bilateral relations and economic cooperation despite their different stances on the issue of Kosovo.