February 3, 2010. - Montenegrin officials rejected an estimate by the International Monetary Fund that its economy experienced the deepest recession in the Balkans and contracted by 7 percent.
Deputy Prime Minister Vujica Lazovic told to journalists that  ”all data show that the fall (of gross domestic product) was not so much.” Official estimation by the government shows 4.3 percent contraction in [...]

WASHINGTON - During his three-day visit, Montenegrin PM Milo Djukanovic will meet U.S. Vice-President Joseph Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
It is believed that one of the main themes to discuss will be Montenegro’s bid to join NATO, and U.S. support in that matter. However, medias pointed out that vast majority of Montenegrin citizens [...]

Montenegro is again in the spotlight of international press, but this time for different reason.
Mostly, the news are connected to terms like “Russians”, ”booming economy”, ”tourism”, ”coast”, ”development” etc. Most foreign press writes about booming tourism and real estate market of this tiny Mediterranean state, but recently a series of articles about influence of Russia [...]

Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic on Wednesday, November 5th, 2008, held talks in Brussels with the European foreign policy and security commissioner, Javier Solana. (From the Council of the European Union, November 5, 2008, Brussels, Belgium)
On Wednesday, November 5th 2008., Mr. Milo Djukanovic, Prime Minister of Montenegro, was received by Mr. Javier Solana, European Union High [...]

Several American medias reported about the strange meeting that John McCain had in Montenegro, during his visit in 2006. 
Extracts from the Nation magazine:
In mid-September The Nation’s website published a photo of McCain celebrating his seventieth birthday in Montenegro in August 2006 at a yacht party hosted by convicted Italian felon Raffaello Follieri and his movie-star [...]

Montenegro is still under great fear of possible closure of Aluminium Plant in Podgorica, which counts for 50% of Montenegro’s export. The Plant known as “KAP” is owned by Russian billionaire Mr Oleg Deripaska, who plans to shut it down, due to financial problems, caused by global economic crisis. But, International Herald Tribune recently brought very interesting [...]

One of the goals of this blog is to follow international media and present some of the interesting news and articles related to Montenegro and Western Balkans region.  Since Montenegro currently fears of the possible closedown of its Aluminium Plant Podgorica (known as KAP), I wanted to share with you implications of this possible issue. Aluminium Plant -KAP [...]