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Montenegro
• Capital: Podgorica• Largest city• 150.000 citizens
Year of entry in the EU
• Montenegro is not a formal member of the Eurozone
• It’s a EU official candidate
Political system
• the president is elected in direct elections• president's powers:- representing the state - promulgating laws - calling elections for new assembly- proposing to the Assembly candidates
President and Primer Minister
Filip Vujanovic Igor Lukšić
Executive• The Government is
responsible for the internal and external affairs of the republic.
• The prime minister directs the work of the government
Legislative• The Parliament is a 75-seat
unicameral body. • Deputies serve a four-year
term and elect the president
• Decisions are made by majority vote
Total area
• land: 102,013,812 sq km• water: 214 sq km • Total boundaries : 524km • border countries: Albania
173 km, Bosnia, 215 km, Croatia 25 km, Serbia 211km
• Coastline: 199 km
Population
• 650,000 • Ethnicity: Montenegrin
62%, other 38% • Religions: Orthodox
65%, Muslim 19%, Roman Catholic 4%, Protestant 1%, other 11%
EthnicityMontenegrin 267.799 43,16%
Serbian 198.414 31,99%Bosnian 48.184 7,77%Albanian 31.163 5,03%Slaves musulmans
24.625 3,97%
Croatia 6.811 1,10%Gypsis 2.826 0,46%
Currency
• Montenegro has no currency of its own• After the euro, the Deutsche Mark was the de
facto currency • Montenegro began using the euro as well.
Official lenguages
• Serbian(official), English, Italian, German• there are groups who claim the Montenegrin
language Serbian as a different one
Typical drink
• Red and white wines• Vranac is the best known
Food
• Nothern, Continental and Mediterranean
• ispod 'under the coals' • kajmak , yoghurt and
cow's and sheep's cheese
Prsuta Cevapi
Traditions
• traditional dance of Montenegro: the Oro
Religion
• Orthodox Christians (74.24%)
• Sunni Muslims• (17.74%)• Catholic Christians
(3.54%)
Music and athem
• National anthem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPtPjMdtofk
• Folk music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WJYmEJ2x0M
Geographical features
• Is a small, mountainous state in south-west Balkans
• Highest place: Durmitor mountain 2,523 m
Wether
• Mediterranean climate:dry summers, rainy winters• See level: warmest
temperatures summer: 27 °C
• mountainous regions: rainfall
More relevant information
History
• 1929 Kingdom of Yugoslavia• annexed it to the Kingdom of Italy (World War II)• Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia(end World War II)• 1992 Dissolution of Socialist Yugoslavia : Serbia and Montenegro• 2006 Independence• 2010 EU candidate