Montenegro marks 20 years of independence from a union with Serbia this week, celebrating a two-decade transformation that has already brought the Balkan country into NATO

Am 21. Mai feiert Montenegro seine Unabhängigkeit. Und doch ringt der kleine Balkanstaat weiter um Identität, Stabilität und seinen Platz in Europa.

Twenty years after seceding from the state union with Serbia, Montenegro is seen as a Western Balkan frontrunner for EU membership but remains marked by corruption, unresolved…