Montenegro

Over the course of 2014, media outlets and Montenegro's two TV broadcasters shed over 150 staffers, while one TV station went bankrupt, the head of the union, Marijana Camovic, said on Tuesday.

BERLIN- Serbia is among a small number of SEE countries running a trade surplus in agricultural and food products, State Secretary at the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Danilo Golubovic said Monday, addressing the Agricultural Ministers' Summit in Berlin.

The Montenegrin Army's air force does not have adequate equipment or enough capacity to control the country's skies, even though airspace protection is one of the priorities Podgorica's NATO integration process, the Centre for Democratic Transition watchdog claimed.

BELGRADE - The first regional mobile roaming price cut will be introduced on June 30, with charges to become equal to EU prices over the next three years, Serbian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic has announced.

Montenegrin police have pledged to take all "preventative and, if necessary, repressive measures" to prevent incidents from disrupting the first official visit to Montenegro of the Foreign Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci - a controversial figure to some because of his past history as a guerrilla leader.

Number of asylum seekers increases in December

BELGRADE -- Last year, about 16,500 people "had the intention to seek asylum in Serbia," and December saw a drastic increase in their number.

3,400 people requested asylum that month, heard a conference organized by the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration in Belgrade on Thursday.

BELGRADE- Last year, about 16,500 people had the intention to seek asylum in Serbia, and December saw a drastic increase in the number of asylum seekers, with 3,400 people requesting asylum that month, it was said at a conference organized by the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration in Belgrade on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Sea Dance Festival, the sea edition of EXIT Adventure, has been named the Best European Medium-Sized Festival - in the category for events with up to 40,000 daily attendees - at this year's European Festival Awards 2014 ceremony.

At least five prison officers and a number of inmates were injured in a mass brawl in Montenegro's largest prison in Podgorica on Wednesday.

Prison authorities said the riot involved more then 30 people who attacked prison staff during their regular daily walk.

A group calling itself the Consulate of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia on Wednesday asked Montenegro's parliament and the state prosecutor to halt the burial of the remains of World War II German soldiers near the military airport in the capital Podgorica.