Montenegro News

A new fund has been set to support energy efficiency projects and reduce carbon emissions in the Balkans and Turkey.

Citizens of the three former Yugoslav republics who have a biometric passport can travel visa-free to EU countries, except Britain and Ireland , which are not a part of the Schengen zone Visa-free travel in Europe for Serbians, Macedonians and Montenegrins became a reality Saturday, when a group of 50 hand-picked Serbians arrived in Brussels .

Bulgarian President Parvanov greeted his Macedonian counterpart in person, and sent telegrams to the Presidents of Serbia and Montenegro, to congratulate them on the lifting of the EU visa regime for their countries.

The European Union opened its borders to more than ten million Serbs, Montenegrins and Macedonians on Saturday after nearly 20 years of demanding visas, a major boost for closer ties with the 27-nation bloc.

Until lately, Kosovo had a decade of padding to quarantine itself from the rawness, violence and fear that clasped to the coattails of liberation in 1999, infecting the "provisional government" months that followed, carrying their bacillus of internecine murder of alleged collaborators and of LDK members -- a good two years into the new decade .

Vatican City, Dec 14, 2009 .- Pope Benedict XVI had brief audiences with a number of people on Monday morning, including three newly ordained bishops and the prime minister of Montenegro.

Pope Benedict XVI met with Albaniaa s Primem Minister Sali Berisha and Montenegroa s Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic in separate private audiences on December 12 and 14, respectively.

PRESIDENT GUL LAYS FOUNDATION OF TURKISH UNIVERSITY IN ALBANIA In Albania on Saturday for an official visit, President Abdullah Gul participated in a ground-laying ceremony for a new Turkish university in the capital, Tirana.

MontenegroA's prime minister urged the European Union yesterday to grant membership to all the nations of the Western Balkans in time for the 100th anniversary of the 1914 outbreak of World War I. Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic said this is the only way to ensure stability in a region where more than 100,000 people died in a series of ...

Montenegrins don't trust political parties, but will continue to back the current administration, cling to statism, and are not sold on NATO membership.

NATO foreign ministers agreed Friday to put Montenegro on track to join the military alliance, barely 10 years after NATO warplanes bombed the Balkan nation during the Kosovo War.

A- Montenegrin police rounded up dozens of refugees who fled war-torn Bosnia in 1992 and handed them over to Bosnian Serb forces who later executed many of them, a Montenegrin state prosecutor said yesterday.

Sarajevo Five Balkan leaders pledged Friday in Sarajevoto foster economic cooperation between their countries and encourage further investment in infrastructure, voicing hope that this joint effort will help their countries overcome the global economic slowdown.

A- SerbiaA's opposition to KosovoA's independence is A'irrationalA' since it cannot be reversed, MontenegroA's Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic said in an interview published yesterday.

A chronology of key events: 15th-18th centuries - Montenegro retains substantial measure of autonomy from Ottoman Empire.

Montenegro emerged as a sovereign state after just over 55% of the population opted for independence in a May 2006 referendum.

It is abundantly clear that this year's electoral campaign for Prishtina has undergone a surreal metamorphosis, moving away from the naff promises of previous years and towards hardcore acerbity full of rant and rave.

High school students in the country protested for 42 days until their voices were heard.

Serbia's Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic said that Serbs who plan to vote in Kosovo's local elections this Sunday should ask themselves whether they are helping Belgrade ''save'' Kosovo by doing so.

President Filip Vujanovic of Montenegro and his Bulgarian counterpart Georgi Parvanov review a Bulgarian army honor guard during an official welcoming ceremony for the former at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in BulgariaA's capital Sofia, yesterday.