Montenegro 

EPCG, Montenegro's largest electric utility, is planning to launch a large-scale tender for battery energy storage by the end of 2024 for the supply of 300 MWh of battery systems

Total foreign trade amounted to €3,88 billion in January-October 2024, or +3,1% compared to the same period last year; Serbia emerged Montenegro's most significant trading partner, according to preliminary data from Monstat

Valentina Pavlicic is the new president of the Supreme Court, elected by the Judicial Council of Montenegro; the post was vacant since December 2020

The government proposed that former workers of the Podgorica Aluminium Factory who do not have a home of their own but regularly paid a part of their salary to the KAP union housing fund be paid €177 for each year of work

Montenegrin startup Buddy.ai, a conversational AI tutor for children, announced that it has closed a EUR 10,2 million seed funding round, bringing the total venture funding raised since launch to EUR 12 million

The extradition of Do Kwon, the South Korean entrepreneur behind two failed cryptocurrencies, has been halted by a court in Podgorica; the case has worried the Montenegrin justice system for more than a year and caused tremors in local politics

Montenegro's draft cybersecurity law, a response to a massive cyber attack on state institutions, is raising questions about overlapping jurisdictions, practicality, and risk of political influence, experts say

Investors are submitting another wave of permit applications for their solar energy projects to the Montenegrin authorities

A new report lists Montenegro among the ten countries in the world where the fewest people separate household waste, along with Albania and Kosovo

Elektroprivreda Crne Gore, controlled by the government, has started preparations for the installation of battery energy storage systems, a pioneering move among state-owned electricity companies in the Western Balkans and South-Eastern Europe

Twelve films, directed by, among others, Ivan Marinović, Sonja Prosenc, Emilija Gašić and Mladen Đorđević, are participating in the Feature Film Competition of the 37th edition of the Herceg Novi Film Festival, the largest film festival in Montenegro

Only 'very limited' progress has been made in preventing corruption at the highest state level and promoting integrity, says the latest report of the Group of States against Corruption, an anti-corruption monitoring body of the Council of Europe