Even as Montenegrins mark today’s anniversary, the true meaning of independence must be something far more ambitious.

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…