what do you think about Serbia and Montenegro?
450408
Much is expected of any team that qualifies from Euro  group. Serbia and Montenegro has all it takes to perform well, I mean quality players, good coach and may be, football tradition inherited from Yugoslavian days. A second round berth is at least sure
574113
Actually, in addition to Montenegro voting to separate from Serbia, Spain is having issues with separatism in its regions.  The Basque country has long wanted an independent state that would take territory from Spain and France.  Catalonia has recently moved towards greater autonomy, and the other regions jealously want to ensure that they receive similar rights vis a vis the central government.  While the UK is not separating, the devolution movement has been strong there in recent history, and Wales and Scotland will probably continue to push for greater autonomy within the UK framework.  History suggests that change alone is constant.
487260
Serbia and Montenegro will win, they are considered the strongest team in Europe.\n\nThe group they are in, is considered to be the toughest one in the world cup, it would be an awesome match!!\n\nPS: Take a look to the africans ( Sorry that I don't write down the name of the country, but I don't know how to translate it from spanish to english ), they are the african champions and all of it's players play in important clubs in Europe, they'll be tough adversaries as well.
1050009
Montenegro, they separate from Serbia about 1 month ago.\n\nMaybe you would see another country in Europe forming, after Cataluña getting independence from Spain.
409791
Serbia and Montenegro will come out on top followed by Argentina then Holland, Serbia was not scored on once in qualifying
467999
Favorites like Germany, ENgland, Netherland, Italy, Chek Rep., Croatia. France,Spain and Portugal will have a chance with  Switzerland and too. Less posibilities to Poland Sweden, Serbia and Ukraine
1171836
croatia, serb/montenegro, czech republic...probably more
632236
Croatia- just watch them. On 13th June, they play Brazil in their group match. They are bound to be a surprise. In 1998 they came in third(!), but they had Davor Sukar then... Still, they are a great team, and have many good solo players. \nSerbia and Montenegro- them also. They are strong this year, because their players are subject to coaches of the former Yugoslavia. A strong team, and are placed in the Group of Death with Holland and Argentina..
630349
don't know will this be nice to you, maybe my answer will not count since I live there but:\n\nI love it, because of:\n\ngreat sense of humor\nnice continental climate\nfascinating history\nfolk music is........ awesome\ngreen hills, and dark blue sea\nmountains covered with snow\nvalleys of Vojvodina covered with wheat\ngreen markets with fresh vegetables\nbeautiful people\nfriendly people\nproud people\njoy of life\ngreat variety of cultures and languages\nkajmak, karadjordjeva snicla\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n\neverything I know and love reminds me of the Balkans....
627360
You can't really get an objective answer to this question...it is very complicated. The war came in 1990s - in fact from 1992 to 1995, and there were three sides - Serbs, Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks), and Croats. We all used to live in one country - Yugoslavia, however Croats, Slvenians, Macedonians and Bosnian Muslims wanted to get independence. Serbs have always wanted to stay in one country with their neighbours (even today many of them want so). Slovenia and Macedonia menaged to get independence without a war, so war is related mostly to the territories of Bosnia and Croatia. One part of Bosnia (today known as the Serb Republic - or Republic of Srpska) have always wanted to stay a part of Yugoslavia. Serb Republic exists today only as a part of Bosnia and it makes 49% of territory of Bosnia - most people still support Serbia in everything- from politics to soccer games against Bosnia. It seems that Serb Republic will never get independence although at least 85% of people living there want so, nor will they be allowed to join Serbia. That's mainly because of the negative image Serbs have in  Western Europe and U.S. (especially because of the Srebrenica masacr where a lot of Muslims were killed by the Serbs). Serbs are often portrayed as a bad guys, but I hope that image will change because each side has had losts, and thousands of Serbs were killed in Croatia and many became refugees. Generalizations are wrong.\nCroatia is today Western oriented country in development, more than 90% of population are Croats, Bosnia has around 45% of muslims and 34% of Serbs, and 17% of Croats.\nOne important thing is religion: Croats are Catholics, Serbs are Orthodox Christians (Russian Christianity) and Bosniaks are Muslims. Today, for some people everything's normal, others will never stop distinguishing who is who (our names are different and it's pretty easy to figure out our origins).\nIn my opinion, Slobodan Milosevic is neither better nor worse than Muslims' and Croats' leaders of that time. Hovewer, those two guys had luck to die before being called criminals. Finaly, everybody's inocent until proven otherwise.\nAnyway, don't think about Serbs only in the terms of war, and fight with neighbours. I'm a Serb, I have been there during the war, I still remember some horrible scenes, but I don't hate anybody. My best friend there was a Muslim girl, and here, in U.S. I spend most of the time with Croats. We are all humans. \nMontenegro is another story, they will get independence, but we have never in history been in war with Montenegro- it's only politics and their wish to enter the E.U. (Serbia is blaimed for protecting the war criminals) and they don't want to be blaimed for some things Serbia is blaimed. Montengro is a really small country, full of rocks and unused land, the only good thing is sea and Adriatic coast. It's beautiful. \nBy the way, you can call it Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian., Montenegrin or even Serbo-Croatian, but, in general, we all speak ONE language and understand each other.\n\nWe are free to travel from one of these new countries to another without a visa. Soccer games are still full of tensions, but it's becoming better...:)))))))))
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Yes I think so. \nthey suffered so much death from the serbs.\nIts not a large area and most are Albanians so I don't see what the hold up is.\nMaybe Kosovo is very rich in resources.\nIts always hard to claim rich land.
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rankng based for a succes of last rhree years: 1 Cuba 2 Serbia and Montenegro 3 Italy 4 Netherland 5 Checz republic 6 Russia 7 USA 8 Hungary 9 Brazil 10 France
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OK let me answer your questions one by one.\n\n1. I don't think Serbia will be the biggest traiding partner. Why not? After all what happened in that region, we don't trust serbs. (that's the general opinion of kosovar albanians).\n\n2. Minority rights will be protected. It's been quite a while since last incident between albanians and serbs. With time people will forget and go on with their lives.\n\n3. I think no one will prevent serbs from going to their churches.\n\n4. Well...It'll take time until people forget what happened. It was a dirty war. Thousands of inocent people were killed, children, women. I think years will pass and poeple will not forget what happened, but as they say "Time heals everything". \nYou said serbs and albanians had no problems a 100 years ago? well serbs have had no problems with slovens, croats and bosnians a 100 years ago neither but they did have a problem now. Remember, always you will have a problem when you repress people, when you take their rights away.\n\n5. Yes, serbia and croatia have managed to improve their relations. Eventually kosovar albanians and serbs will improve their relations too in about 10 years from now.\n\nTo wrap it up....The future of Kosovo's status will be known soon. I think that's a big help for both nations, serbs and albanians, because we will know where we stand. \nI'm optimistic that the relations will improve and hopefully things will get better in both sides.\n-----------------------------------------------\n\nTo the person who answered below:\n\nif serbia has nothing to import from kosovo, why all the trouble to keep it then? do you really think that serbia government cares for some religious objects? do you know that kosovo has the largest coal deposits in balkans and third in europe? it has coal enough to supply the whole region for at least 13 centuries. do you know that kosovo has the largest lead deposits in europe, not to mention iron, zync, chrome and copper. etc etc
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Kosovo and Metohija (Mae-toe-khy-a) is southern Serbian province. It originates such status from 1974 Yugoslav Constitution, when Yugoslav president Tito (president from 1945 to 1980; born 1892, died 1980) - old and not having total power any more, had to make new deals with nationalists from Croatia (Croatia was the only country that was with Germany in II WW but after war was awarded more territories than it had before the war) who wanted their independant state. So, as an answer, some of them were send to prison for a while, but Serbia was divided into two provinces and one unidentified central region left in the middle: like P-C-P model (Province-Central_Area-Province). Why was that? \n\n  Because Croats stated that Serbia has much power in Yugoslavia. Serbia was kingdom before joining in Yugoslav state (state of Yugo (South) Slave(n)s), and outnumbered all the other nations that joined into one country. So, Tito decided to divide Serbia into three parts, and two of them became "little republics into a republic", and third (central part) had no attribute - strange indeed. So, Serbia had three governments then: Kosovo and Metohia, Vojvodina, and (joined) Serbian government. Central part didn't have it's own parliament.\n\n  When war started in Yugoslavia, Kosovo Albanians tried to separate from Serbia. They didn't succeed for years, but finally, with American help (and with help of people who have great influence in some European countries where USA has it's own great influence), they will soon have independance.\n\n  Well, independance in way called secession (like California decides to leave USA), and with 40.000 USA troops.\n\n  I guess any part of world where USA and NATO (USA again) have their interests can gain independance from the country they belong to, just as long as USA can install government and bring it's army, oil companies, rockets, etc.\n\n  Simple as that...\n\n  Read my answer to question: "Secret marriage?" - you'll find it if you click on my profile, and then find it in my answer list.\n\n  Read also: "If there was no USA and UN influence on the Balkans, would Serbia rule the western Balkans? if not, who would?"\n\n  Regards,\nm.
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Netherlands and Serbia/M\njust wait and see ;)
561935
OK.... \nYou are obviously talking about the referendum scheduled to take place on may 21st. To see weather Montenegro decides to break the union.\n\nAs to your question what is is the difference between Serbia and Montenegro, and why they both want to be separated...can I try to answer both questions together..\n\nI'm sure you know that Montenegrins do not hate Serbians...\n\nI think the reasons they want independence are...\n\nMontenegro was always an independent mountain state and never part of the Serbian empire. First time these countries joined was after the first world war war.. So now that every other country has left Yugoslavia, so does Montenegro..\n\nI think there are of course many similarities (as with all former yug states...But I think they are some difference..\nMontenegrins (most!) speak with the western dialect closer to Croatia, and Serbians use the Eastern. If I am correct Monenegro was never under Ottoman rule. So there are some different cultural differences.\n\nOther reasons are of course more modern... I think that Serbia and Montenegro have been separating for some time. How long has it been since Montenegro stoped using the dinar??\nIt is in Montenegro's advantage to leave..because they can now enter Europe quicker...and won't be penalised for not handing over Mladic and Karadzic like Serbia is.\nAlso Montenegro is a small country and it is eay to be lost in Serbia but independent it can find it's own way.\n\nAnd as for Serbia...personaliy I don't think Serbians care one way or the other..They are concerned with getting over the mess of the Yugoslav wars and starting a fresh.\n\nWELL...These are my opinions as an outsider.....\n\nI understand your concerns and I felt the same way until I visited Motenegro, and now I think separation is for the best...I know that there are many Montenegrins especially in the North you feel closer to Serbia...but I still think that Montenegro and Serbia will still be close even if they are separate countries :-)
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Every time, some not so great team turns out to be excellent, so we can expect surprises! And it would be more interesting that way!\nMy heart is with Serbia&Montenegro, but my head says Brazil!