While making a weekly-topic schedule for my page, I have decided to have Tuesday for some of those local trends, though, since topics on this page are mostly related to economics and finance, almost everything I write about the euro area is somehow related to Montenegro.

However, if you ask some of the local officials about some of those issues, it seems that only in our country exists a hope for the survival of the euro as a currency. It is obvious that the Prime Minister has already adopted all of those good-skilled tactics from his predecessor to avoid giving a specific and extensive, but rather imprecise answers to questions about what will happen in the future with the Montenegrin economy. Just our luck, every few years the world focuses with a global crisis, so that the government has an explanation for its own failures. The global factors have always been the best excuse. But when the crash of the Lehman Brothers occurred and when there was the beginning of the crisis in late 2008, the prime minister Djukanovic has been assuring us that we will avoid the crisis. However, prime minister Luksic is nowadays telling us to prepare for tougher times. At one moment it might seem that you listen to weather forecasts announcing a typhoon that might or that might not pass by us. But while the European Union is struggling with its numerous problems, and the rest of the world prepares for the collapse of the euro, in Montenegro, which has accepted this currency without any sort of signed document and without a single mark on under what conditions, nor by at what cost and effects of all this, neither the possibilities and alternatives in case the country decides to no longer use the euro, the prime minister claims that he believes in the survival of the euro area. If only the EU leaders knew what kind of economic know-how potential we have, they will address all of their dilemmas and issues here, even for the price that they would have to decide on an ad-hoc assigning the EU membership to Montenegro. Logically, why would only seven hundred thousand people have the privilege to survive the crisis, while Merkozy has lost all hope in the euro?

Again, I say, as the Tuesday was coming closer, I was thinking about the topic for today's text, while just this morning I have realized that it is 29th November (former Yugoslavia's Day of Republic), a day which, in this land once meant a lot. However, I will not waste my words on the classic weep for the brotherhood and unity, even though everyone else uses this date as an opportunity for that. Fictional brotherhood and unity, as such, were a symbol of economic unsustainability of the former Yugoslavia, just as the above-mentioned apparently euro, in fact, the main cause of economic unsustainability of the European Union. Yes, there has always been some better solution and there would have always been someone that at the time pointed out the need to reorganize the system that has become unsustainable and always would be, at the very end and after the disastrous consequences we understand that someone all the time was right. These days, the EU is facing the big challenge and maybe there would be someone with a clear vision to decide to stop financing other countries' debts to finance in order that the Union as such stays alive. Yugoslavia, however, showed that good ideas are being seen only when it is too late for them. Some ideas and some people are simply ahead of time, such in this region there was the case with Ante Markovic. Yesterday's saying good buy to him, a reminder of the events in a country that today would celebrate its biggest holiday, but that his opponents have dispersed in a way that is unprecedented in the civilized world, especially as we are talking long contend with this situation, particularly if we talk about Markovic's political contemporaries, of all ex-Yugoslavian countries only Montenegro is still governed by the same political structure – those that derisively called him out "false reformists" at public meetings and from the period for which everyone claims that has been better than today, the remaining party took only party-idolatry. The Party is sacred. The Party is the goal, but also a mean for achieving all other goals. I do not know whether it's about genetics or upbringing made me so, but a membership in such organizations has always acted phobic to me. I grew up in a family where being "the party" meant that you do not have any other virtue of life. The former "flower children" had so many other things to talk about, so that politics has never come on the list. And even if they have mentioned something, not only it would have sounded incomprehensible, but the six-year-old-me had a million questions about the meaning of the term from the political slang. I think there have been dozens of times they have shown me on a map how "Maribor, where we previously lived is no longer in Yugoslavia." I would think, "what, the cities move and travel"? All the following time, instead of showing the new discoveries it has been bringing the new absurdities. The sentence I have heard from my parents in the early nineties, "and we all voted for the reformists and nationalists have won," had so stuck in my mind, keeping all the ambiguity and the absence of all logic, turning into fact and explaining the enormous extent between a conscientious minority and the wild and the primitive majority, making me willing to distance myself from them for a lifetime.

After twenty years – the citizens still dream of living standards achieved at the end of 1989, they have confidence in the EU as a last hope for salvation, even though each day they realize how much saving is required to itself, all the time listening to the odes of governors' own works, by the same people who were there at the beginning of the story, just with the exception that at that time they supported the protests, and now they have something against them; that they then were very close to left-wing ideas and now they propagate some hardcore capitalism; that then we have been assured that the struggle for brotherhood and unity, while they have been destroying themselves, and today they are leading us to the integration process in the EU, which they have turned their backs long time ago. All we have are these dates from farther and farther past to remind us how far we are from where once we have been and the crises that come to be an excuse for everything that we could, but did not want to change by ourselves. We are left to negotiating and to obtain the dates from someone who is satisfied with how we met our integration commitments. We live between those dates – Yugoslav past and European future, and the contours of our present is only being moved by the global crisis, just to have something happening at the time we live in.