An independent Montenegro?

They actually made shirts with "Yes" in latin script, mainly for the Bosniak-populated north. I think that's a pretty good sign! The people in the Sandzak are celebrating too.

Yep. It's so weird. I still don't wrap my mind around it.

I guess the Bosniak congress doesn't have much sway over its voters. :D They recommended voting for the union in April:



They'll have to change their map symbol thing:



And now that the capital, Novi Pazar, is in Serbia - what will be the capital of the Montenegrin Sandzak? I'd say Plav-Gusinje:



Or Rozaje:



Edited by Mila - 22-May-2006 at 11:55

I'm also curious, will Montenegrins keep their capital Podgorica or move it back to Niksic or Cetinje or some such place?

They're still counting the remaining 25000 votes - for 24 h now !!!  It's absurd...i think a lot of money is ''changing hands'' right now... 

I think it's in the long-term that Montenegro will be better off. Montenegro and Kosovo both suffered from the same thing - good intentions in Tito's Yugoslavia. More money was spent in Montenegro and Kosovo that was spent in the rest of Yugoslavia combined, I bet - but they were all investments that never worked, and never really could work. Bosnia, although it had a significantly higher standard of living in those years, was even WORSE off. At least in Montenegro and Kosovo they had fake industries that outlasted socialist patronage a few years, Bosnia was heavily administrative so when socialism was gone, so was a massive chunk of the available employment.

Anyhow... in the short term Montenegro is going to have a rude awakening. The reasons for separating from Serbia are problems they will have to face as well, and once Djukanovic and his mafia government (and they are) start living like kings at the expense of the people (and they will), the general population will get frustrated.

Tourism is going to get a boost in Montenegro. There are more people than anyone cares who admit who refuse to enter Serbia, especially from the former Yugoslavia, and they'll now start going into Montenegro - especially Slovenian tourists to the coast and Bosniak tourists to the Sandzak, which was rising steadily even during Serbia-Montenegro. Serbian tourists will still go, most of the "Serbian tourists" they constantly bragged were supporting Montenegro were Montenegrins anyway, just going back home for vacations.

If they play their cards right, they could end up latching on to sea and transport businesses. Rijeka (Croatia) will always have the upper hand here, and Albania is catching up, but Montenegro could compete too. Kotor bay can take some pretty big ships. It's not like Neum (Bosnia) where they'd beach themselves still two kilometers from shore.

Serbia could be worse off if Montenegro decides to f--k them over trade/tariff wise, but they pretty much both have their foot to each other's neck so it'll be, economically, a cold war - if any war. Serbia, right now, is being held back by its own doing. It's recovered enough that any foriegn investment there is going to be as worthwhile as it'd be anywhere else. Once they get rid of the war hangover and bend over enough to satisfy the international community, they'll recover very quickly - watch and see.

Montenegro, though, overall - is relative. It was always one of the poorest regions of Yugoslavia. People there aren't expecting mansions and sidewalks that move. Even a moderate recovery will be enough to have made independence worth it.

WHAT DID I SAY?DID I SAY HOW ITS GONNA BE?

SO......NOW WE CAN TALK AS EQUALS

You know the joke when the Cosmos(Universe) talkes to a fly and tels her:"Look at you, you are so small .Your presence is so irelevant.You stink and you are nothing.I could destroy you with one clap".......and the fly sais:"bzzz bzzzz, so what?"

Finally i can say : SRBIJA!!!!!!!

once again let me remind you that you guys and girls owe me money and i will be expecting that check in the mail by friday.

Srbija(whispering)
:";