Issue 472 - January 5, 2001

The evil blood which Milosevic drew will continue to damage relations between Belgrade and Podgorica for a long time. What can be expected from the Kostunica - Djukanovic - Djindjic triangle of power

Someone might notice that Kosovo is fairly lost to Serbia anyway, but Belgrade definitely has the right to continue negotiating over it all, to request various concessions and generally to deal with it in its own free time, instead of immediately finding itself at a clear loss once Podgorica decides to abolish Yugoslavia

The Montenegrin ruling coalition has dispersed, but the Liberal Alliance offers Djukanovic plenty of favours on condition that he puts forward a clear and unambiguous referendum question

According to the present law, former presidents of Serbia and Yugoslavia have the right to lifelong security protection, to lifelong limousine services and a certain number of employees. He arranged this for himself in time, in the same period that he secured for Himself property in the exclusive Dedinje district of Belgrade, but in a manner that is uniformly sloppy and bares the markings of revolutionary improvisation. This brings the new government into a delicate position