In a joint press release on Monday 17 October, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and Commissioner for Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn hailed the parliamentary and local elections conducted in Montenegro the previous day “in a calm and orderly manner” and “under a reformed legal framework”. The atmosphere surrounding the elections was, nonetheless, tense.
Mogherini and Hahn highlighted that, according to the preliminary...