{"id":3005,"date":"2010-07-14T08:44:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T07:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2010-07-14T08:44:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T07:44:39","slug":"forgotten-world-213-montenegro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3005","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (213): Montenegro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montenegro\">Montenegro <\/a>emerged as a sovereign state in Europe after just over 55% of  the population opted for independence in a May 2006 referendum. The vote heralded the end of the former Union of Serbia and Montenegro &#8211;  itself created only three years earlier out of the remnant of the  former Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n<p>The EU-brokered deal of 2003 was intended to stabilise the region  by settling Montenegrin demands for independence from Serbia and  preventing further changes to Balkan borders. However, the same deal contained the seeds of the union&#8217;s dissolution. It stipulated that after  three years the two republics could hold referendums on whether to keep  or scrap it. Montenegro opted for the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Montenegro last experienced independence nearly 90 years earlier when it  was absorbed into the newly-formed Yugoslavia at the end of World War I. Today it has a population of less than 700,000 but hopes to join the European Union soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montenegro emerged as a sovereign state in Europe after just over 55% of the population opted for independence in a May 2006 referendum. The vote heralded the end of the former Union of Serbia and Montenegro &#8211; itself created only three years earlier out of the remnant of the former Yugoslavia. The EU-brokered deal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}