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The EU and the government in Pristina both acknowledge the ongoing problem with joblessness in the Romany, Ashkali, and Balkan Egyptian communities. The woefully low hiring in the public sector isn't helping.
President Milo Djukanovic has led Montenegro to the fore among aspiring EU members. But in a wide-ranging RFE/RL interview, he responds to criticism of Podgorica's record on organized crime and corruption, and talks about his use of offshore bank accounts and tensions with neighbor Serbia.
Tens of billions of dollars' worth of gas lies right beneath CA Rosetti and a handful of other Romanian villages. But for now at least, they and more than 90 percent of the country's other rural households are stuck burning firewood.
Against a combustible backdrop of the kind of religious and ethno-nationalist tensions that are taking down its current government, Montenegrins shared markedly differing takeaways from a shocking mass shooting this month.
A Russian fugitive's case shot to the top of Moscow's list of priorities after he burned his Russian passport to protest the invasion of Ukraine. Now, a Bulgarian court says it can't trust Russian assurances that he'd get a fair trial and he shouldn't be sent home.