My piece on Montenegro’s ambition to join the EU, and how the Irish EU Council presidency may play a vital brokerage role before the end of the year, as some member states introduce new demands of Podgorica. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

John O'Brennan: Ireland could be crucial to Montenegro's EU accession chancesLike Ireland in 1973, Montenegro is small, peripheral and insecure, in a world of increasingly volatile international relations and a multilateral order in retreatwww.irishexaminer.com