The final chapter of the collapse of former premier Josip Broz Tito’s Yugoslavia was written on May 20 when the people of Montenegro voted for a peaceful divorce from Serbia. The end of the union of the two countries removed one of the last pieces of baggage left over from the failed socialist state and has cleared the way for Serbia to concentrate on its EU accession bid.
Given the strife the region has suffered in the past decade, the divorce went surprisingly smoothly: 55.4% of Montenegrins voted to separate, which was accepted in the Serbian capital of Belgrade with little griping.
