[bob808]

Sounds like basically they are putting a stamp of approval and hanging a new name tag on what has already been going on.

By the way, does anyone know what happened to our Balkans list?

[zook]

Whew! For a while there, I thought they were going to rename it Hugo Montenegro!

[FormerLib]

The Western goal of separating Montenegro from Serbia collapsed when Patriarch Pavle began touring Montenegro a while ago. His presence and their response proved that they are one people with one faith.

This doesn't bode well for the uncanonical breakaway "Montenegrin Orthodox Church."

[downunder]

Looks to me like the Solana pulls quite a lot of weight in the BALKANS right now and that Montenegro might get its independance without a referendum which Djukanovic had no chance of winning. Kiss your freedom goodbye "MonteSerbians" as Solana now dictates your future and the puppets in government just rubber stamp his orders like robots.

[kosta50]

Sounds like basically they are putting a stamp of approval and hanging a new name tag on what has already been going on

It's a cosmetic change. But the body will still be dead, no matter how much makeup you slap on it. In essence, the non-functioning, non-viable "federation" will remain just that, except it will be "legal" ta have a single "country" with 2 currencies, and similar nonsense.

The best part is the new name -- the achronym will be S&M.

Wonder what the new national anthem will be? "Beat me"? Or the flag (skull, bones and chains?).

[F-117A]

There's still Cyber Yugoslavia!