The Montenegrin elections and the latest relaunch of the Serbian-Kosovo Dialogue fill newspaper columns, but give little indication as to whether we’ve taken two steps back, are standing still, or are on the verge of a turnaround, and towards what – more or less democracy, more Russia or more Euro-Atlantic integration. Or just lots of newspaper soap operas
As summer wanes and gives way to autumn, at a juncture when it is still unclear how long our virtual escape from reality will last, two potentially important changes took place: after three decades at the helm, power was lost in Montenegro by the ruling party, the only one that didn’t experience a shift since the 1990s and the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, while in Washington, D.C., on the eve of the U.S. elections, the Serbian-Kosovo dialogue was momentarily reestablished. Here our respondents attempt to assess the importance of these events.