Milos Rudovic is a correspondent in the Podgorica bureau of RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
The European Union’s former high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, Catherine Ashton, has defended the bloc’s initial response after Russia occupied Crimea in 2014, but acknowledged “we did not know then what we know now.”
Montenegro has signed a memorandum of understanding with China to build a new highway connecting the coastal towns of Budva and Tivat. The project is expected to cost around $59 million and is raising familiar concerns after a previous highway project plunged the country deep into debt.
Longtime Montenegrin leader Milo Djukanovic will face off next month against a candidate nearly half his age after failing to secure a majority in the first round of a presidential election held in the former Yugoslav republic on March 19.
