Montenegro
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Balkans: ‘Montenegro without a president’
8 April 201344PresseuropVijesti -
Montenegro: The Russians invade the Adriatic coast
16 November 20121126 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Immigration: For or against visas for the Balkans?
26 October 20128520PresseuropDagens Nyheter, Aftonbladet -
EU membership: Montenegro and Iceland edge closer
27 June 2012386PresseuropEUobserver.com, Le Temps -
Eurovision: Rambo Amadeus, the cliché slayer
18 May 2012951 Tportal Zagreb -
Central Europe: Democracy in decline
26 March 2012663PresseuropDie Presse -
European Union: An enlargement of illusions
13 October 2011853 Dagens Nyheter Stockholm -
EU accession: The Balkan family photo is blurred
21 January 20111152 Politika Belgrade -
Balkans: The big cleanup begins
23 December 2010994 Monitor Podgorica -
Institutions: EU grows weary of enlargement
10 November 2010581 Presseurop -
Balkans: Montenegro - come if you're rich
26 August 201058 The New York Times New York -
History: Can't take the Ottoman out of the Balkans
8 February 20101063 Globus-Skopje Skopje -
Hachfeld, Neues Deutschland (Berlin): No way through
26 January 2010 -
Balkans: Hail Albania!
25 November 2009191 The Guardian London -
Balkans: Back to the future with Yugo-nostalgia
22 October 2009381 Wprost Warsaw -
EU enlargement: Auditors find "black hole" of the Balkans
14 October 2009PresseuropTrouw -
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Have passport, can't travel
3 September 200921 BH Dani Sarajevo -
EU enlargement: Never mind the Balkans, here's Iceland
31 July 20092 El País Madrid
They come for the sea, sun, for peace and quiet ... and business opportunities. Taking advantage of old historical and cultural ties, more and more Russians are settling the former Yugoslav republic and EU member candidate Montenegro. 
The joyfully subversive turbo-funk singer will represent Montenegro at this year’s Eurovision with “Euro neuro” — a humorous and highly accurate enumeration of clichés about the Balkans and their relationship with the EU. 
In opening up the prospect of accession to several candidate countries, the European Commissioner for Enlargement means to put on a show of optimism. But it only reinforces the impression that Europe doesn’t know where it’s going, writes the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. 
The population census demanded by Brussels has become a political challenge in most of the countries of the western Balkans. Twenty years after the start of the wars in former Yugoslavia, the venture brings ethnic and social tensions back into the spotlight. 
Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro: in the space of a fortnight, the leaders or ex-leaders of all three countries have been arrested or accused of wrongdoing. Meanwhile, reports a Montenegro weekly, the EU is paving the way for the accession of all three Balkan countries.
For the European press, the publication of the annual “progress report” on prospective candidates for EU accession, has failed to dispel the general apathy that surrounds the question of enlargement. 
Eager to join the European Union, Montenegro is cleaning up its image of corruption and pulling out all the stops to attract foreign capital. 
Five centuries of Turkish domination left their mark on culture, cuisine, language and even gestures in Balkan countries. It is an influence that is still apparent in attitudes that have affected the pace of integration in the European Union for a number of Balkan states. 
On 16 November the EU Council formally approved Albania’s application for accession to the Union. Guardian columnist Peter Preston argues in favour of an emerging country whose enthusiasm for the European project is a welcome antidote to eurosceptic cynicism. 
Separated by wars which marked the 1990s, some citizens of the former Yugoslavia are attempting to rebuild the cultural ties, which were a feature of the Titoist state. Today, with encouragement from Europe, political leaders are also beginning to recognize this trend. 
From 1st January, 2010, Muslim Bosnians and Kosovans will be the only citizens of the former Yugoslavia required to obtain visas to enter the European Union. Sarejevo daily, BH Dani, explains how impartial principles will result in discriminatory practice. 
The enthusiasm with which member states have welcomed Reykjavik's request for accession to the EU is in marked contrast to the prudence — and in some cases hostility — which has greeted similar requests from the countries of ex-Yugoslavia and Turkey. But the EU cannot afford to give the impression that certain candidates enjoy special privileges.