With large-scale Russian and Belarusian military manoeuvres about to take place on the borders of the Baltic states, the American Vice President, Mike Pence, provided the NATO members and candidate countries of Eastern Europe with reassurances, during a visit to the region this week.
Speaking from Podgorica, where he concluded his tour on Wednesday 2 August, Pence said that “the future of the Western Balkans is in the West”, hailing Montenegro’s accession to NATO on 5 July an...