Latest News from Montenegro
Germany Tells Montenegrins to Stay at Home
The German ambassador in Montenegro, Gudrun Steinacker, on Monday said Montenegrin citizens planning to live and work in Germany illegally will "certainly fail to succeed".
She said it was difficult to obtain accurate data on the number of citizens from the north of Montenegro who had gone to Germany to find jobs but noted that "a few thousand people are being mentioned in public.
Vargas Llosa to Open Montenegrin Theatre Festival
The famous writer and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa is coming to Montenegro on June 19, at the invitation of publishing house Nova knjiga, which has published several of his works.
During a three-day visit, Vergas Llosa will meet with top Montenegrin officials, prominent local writers and, of course, his readers.
Djukanovic Sole Candidate for Ruling Party's Top Post
Montenegro's ruling party congress, scheduled for next week, is expected to reaffirm Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic's position as leader and tighten party discipline.
Djukanovic, a former communist, has led Montenegro for almost 25 years. He is seeking his seventh mandate as leader of a party that has been in power without interruption since the beginning of the nineties.
NATO Warsaw Summit Should Invite Macedonia, Montenegro to Join - Polish DefMin
NATO should invite Macedonia and Montenegro to join when it holds its next summit in Poland in July of next year, Polish Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak has said.
"It would be excellent news if the invitations could be sent from (the NATO summit in) Warsaw to Macedonia and Montenegro," Reuters quoted Siemoniak as saying at a conference in Wroclaw, Poland on Friday.
Back from Syria and Iraq, Bosnian fighters pose threat at home
Bosnian fighters returning from Syria and Iraq are forming regional militant networks that pose a direct threat to security in the Balkans and beyond, a study warned on June 11.
NATO Chief 'Sincerely Regrets Civilian Deaths' in 1999 Bombing
The loss of all lives in 1999 was a tragedy, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday during a visit to the Montenegrin capital Podgorica.
"I deeply regret everything that happened. I want to express my condolences to the families and all those who lost loved ones in 1999," Stoltenberg told a press conference after meeting Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic.
NATO chief offers condolences to families of victims
NATO chief offers condolences to families of victims
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the loss of all lives during NATO's bombing campaign against the SRJ represented "a tragedy."
BIRN Hosts Media Freedom Conference
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network's regional media conference, entitled 'Media Freedom Challenges', will be held on Friday June 12, in Sarajevo, where BIRN's directors and media experts will debate the main obstacles to media freedom in the Balkans.
Plan to Net 'Pink Panthers' Mulled in Montenegro
Senior police investigators from Europe, Japan and the United Arab Emirates gathered in Budva, Montenegro, on Wednesday to share information about ongoing investigations into the so-called "Pink Panther" robberies around the world.
The meeting is part of an Interpol operation against the gang, most of whose members come from the former Yugoslavia.
Kosovo No State, Serbian President Tells Jahjaga
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has told the President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, that she should not consider herself a state president since Kosovo "will never be a state", according to well founded reports in the Belgrade media.
Montenegro Awaits NATO Chief With High Hopes
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, is coming to Podgorica on Wednesday on a two-day visit to discuss Montenegro's aspirations to become a full member of the Atlantic Alliance by the end of 2015.
Nikolic talks about position of Serbs in Montenegro
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said that the rights of Serbs in Montenegro must be "solved by the Constitution."
Nikolic, who was in Montenegro for a regional summit, said that Serbia must care for Serbs wherever they are, and that this was one of the topics of his meetings with Montenegrin officials.
EU Needs Western Balkans, Summit Leaders Say
A summit of regional leaders on Monday in Montenegro heard that the EU project is incomplete without the Western Balkans.
The EU accession process is not a technical but a political issue in which the specificities of each country must also be taken into account, it was further concluded.
President meets with representatives of Serbs in Montenegro
Serbs in Montenegro are discriminated against but they intend to be persistent in asserting their rights, their representatives told Tomislav Nikolic on Monday.
They organized a reception for the Serbian president after the summit of leaders of the Brdo-Brioni Process in Budva and informed him about the problems they are facing.
"Eurointegration of Western Balkans should not stop"
Austrian President Heinz Fischer said on Monday that European integration of the Western Balkans should continue.
The Austrian government will continue supporting the region on the road to the EU just as it has been doing for the past 15 years, Fischer told reporters after a summit of the Brdo-Brijuni Process leaders in Budva, Montenegro.