The law that rocked Montenegro
What’s behind the months-long protests?
|2020.04.18
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The issues behind the law and the reaction it has provoked are complex, dealing with Montenegrin identity, religious independence and political opposition.
Some Montenegrin Orthodox Church officials believe that the law has given them an opportunity to claim some of the more than 600 churches and monasteries in Montenegro.
The European Commission has requested that the Montenegrin government begin negotiations immediately to produce a solution acceptable to everyone.
Politicians manipulating people’s fears, and religious and national identities, has not been uncommon in Montenegro, even in the past.
Marijana Camović Veličković
Marijana Camović Veličković graduated from the Faculty of Law in Podgorica and has been working as a journalist since 2001. Since its establishment in 2013, Camović has been head of the Trade Union of Media of Montenegro, and has been particularly interested in the topics of media freedoms, the relations of media owners toward employees and the labor rights of workers in the media sector. She is also a board member of the European Federation of Journalists.
This story was originally written in Serbian.