Montenegrin Political Landscape: Religion and Politics

Montenegrin Political Landscape: Religion and Politics

Dismissing harsh criticism from the opposition, the Serbian Orthodox Church and Serbian officials, the authorities in Montenegro are not giving up a new Freedom of Religion Act, which Prime Minister Dusko Markovic says will be sent to Parliament late in July. The government insists that the new piece of legislation “has met the highest international standards, including the United Nations conventions governing the area – from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights to the guidelines the Venice Commission, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) have offered.”