Montenegro

Montenegro Property will Go From Strength to Strength
Montenegro joined the European Union's (EU) Competitiveness and Innovation Program Monday 05 March2008.

Property investors go to Montenegro
Montenegro has grown into one of Europe's more favourable emerging property investment markets. This is an article detailing why.

Buy Property In Montenegro – For Great Investment Returns
Recently voted one of the top 5 property investment destinations in the world Montenegro is attracting the attention of astute long term property investors across the world. Buying property in Montenegro has all the ingredients property investors want and we will look at the opportunity in more detail in this article.

Only Beauty Is For You - Durmitor National Park
What makes the 32,000 hectare park so extraordinary is the vast number of different landscapes in such a small area.

Budva - Celebration of the Adriatic Sea
The ancient walls of Budva plunge directly into the Adriatic, lending this charming coastal town a symbiotic relationship with the sea.

Serbs Mark Historic Disaster Day With Renewed Gloom
Anniversary of battle defeat by Turks highlights loss of Montenegro and Kosovo.

Serbia Not All There for Holland Game
Soccer: World Cup: Serbia & Montenegro go into their clash with Holland a player short after Dusan Petkovic sensationally walked out of the squad.

Identity Crisis
Buoyed by the independence moves of Montenegro and Kosovo, Tom Parfitt sees disputed regions in the former USSR push for sovereignty.

Montenegro: An Independent Nation
Leader: Montenegro's birth as an independent nation marks the final demise of an old multinational state - Yugoslavia, the land of the south Slavs, carved from the ruins of the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires at the end of the first world war.

Europe's Newest State Wins Seal of Approval From Poll Monitors
· Montenegro celebrates despite Serbian protests · Solana dampens down ambition to join EU

Montenegro Confirms Independence
Montenegro's state electoral commission today confirmed the republic would split from Serbia and establish a new independent Balkan state.

Montenegro Vote Finally Seals Death of Yugoslavia
· 56% opt for independence amid huge turnout · Tensions high as leader of pro-Serbia camp cries foul

Tiny Nation With Colourful Past Set to Witness Final Break-up of the Balkans
· Montenegro referendum Independence campaign confident of victory · Serbs try to cling on to last remaining partners

Serbia Cannot Escape Curse of Mladic
If Montenegro were to vote to secede from Serbia at the weekend and finally screw down the coffin lid on the corpse of Yugoslavia, General Ratko Mladic would be an apt choice as pallbearer and gravedigger-in-chief. By Simon Tisdall

Montenegro Fights to Change Rules for Independence Vote
· EU says referendum needs 55% majority to be valid · Serbian nationalists warn of war if split approved

Montenegro Mourns Worst Rail Disaster
At least 39 people were killed in the Balkan republic of Montenegro yesterday, when a train derailed and crashed into a ravine. About 135 were injured, more than half believed to be children returning from skiing trips to the mountains.

Mafia Chief Links Balkan Leader to Tobacco Scam
Ian Traynor in Montenegro on prime minister's denial that he made money from cigarette smuggling. In a high-security courtroom in the southern Italian port of Bari, Gerardo Cuomo is accused of being a member of a mafia-style organisation.

Montenegrin PM accused of link with tobacco racket
Montenegro's prime minister, Milo Djukanovic, is under pressure to come clean about his alleged involvement in tobacco smuggling after Italian prosecutors linked him with an organised crime racket worth billions of euros.

'Sex Slave' Accuses Montenegro Ministers
There is growing international concern that the authorities in Montenegro are covering up alleged government involvement in the brutal treatment of a Moldovan woman who told the police about the abuse of sex slaves in Montenegrin brothels. Svetlana, 28, who has two children and is...

Montenegro Emulates Serb Poll Farce
European officials warned of destabilisation in the Balkans yesterday and demanded that Montenegro change its election law after the tiny post-Yugoslav republic failed to elect a head of state for the second time in six weeks. Public disaffection and boredom with the political process saw...

Kosovans Seek Freedom From Serb-led Union
Activists angry at inclusion in Serbia-Montenegro. Kosovo Albanian activists want to have the UN-run province declared an independent state next week because they are so enraged at being formally included as part of Serbia in the new union of Serbia and Montenegro.

Yugoslavia votes for its own abolition
The Yugoslav parliament yesterday voted to abolish the Balkan federation and replace it with a looser union between its last remaining members, Serbia and Montenegro. The new state is due to be formed by the end of the year.

Montenegro PM quits in row over independence
The Montenegrin prime minister, Filip Vujanovic, resigned yesterday, bowing to pressure from the Liberal Alliance party, which withdrew its support from his minority government in protest at a decision to shelve independence plans for the coastal Yugoslav republic.

Serbia and Montenegro in New Union
Europe was celebrating a rare success in the Balkans last night after brokering a new union between Serbia and Montenegro to replace federal Yugoslavia and avoid another war in the continent's troubled south-eastern corner. "We have taken an important step forward for the stability of the...

Montenegro to Drop Aim of Independence
Montenegro's president, Milo Djukanovic, is on the verge of abandoning his dream of independence after heavy pressure from the European Union, including the threat of cuts in aid. The republic will remain in a federation with Serbia and take turns to occupy a single seat at the United...