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