3. Year of entry in the EU
• Montenegro is not a formal member of the
Eurozone
• It’s a EU official candidate
4. 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
6. Executive Legislative
• The Government is • The Parliament is a 75-seat
responsible for the internal unicameral body.
and external affairs of the • Deputies serve a four-year
republic. term and elect the
• The prime minister directs president
the work of the government • Decisions are made by
majority vote
7. 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
8. Population
• 650,000
Ethnicity
• Ethnicity: Montenegrin Montene
267.799 43,16%
62%, other 38% grin
Serbian 198.414 31,99%
• Religions: Orthodox Bosnian 48.184 7,77%
65%, Muslim Albanian 31.163 5,03%
Slaves
19%, Roman Catholic musulma 24.625 3,97%
4%, Protestant ns
Croatia 6.811 1,10%
1%, other 11% Gypsis 2.826 0,46%
9. 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.
19. 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