In the opening speech, President of the Municipality of Mojkovac Dejan Medojević said that local authorities together with civil sector are working constantly and in partnership to create conditions and opportunities for children in their community and Montenegro to have the same rights and living conditions as their peers in EU member states.
Among the gainers, British Airways owner International Airlines Group added 21.5p to 613.5p as Morgan Stanley issued an upbeat note: IAG stands apart from its EU peers in terms of financial and share price performance since fourth quarter results season.
Merkel, in contrast, halfway through her third consecutive term in office, is juggling multiple international challenges with the self-assurance of a leader without peers in the EU who represents Europe's biggest economy.
Greece's EU peers continued to lament the pace of economic reform in Athens, while the country's leftwing government under the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has stood by demands for social safeguards for its citizens.
"What's at stake is the reputation of the European Union," Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni told reporters as he arrived for a meeting with EU peers in Luxembourg.
The peer chairs a Lords EU subcommittee that has just completed an investigation into the "acquired rights" of Europeans in the UK and Britons living in continental Europe.
Catherine Ashton, the Labour peer who is the EU's foreign and security policy chief, is to discuss Ashdown's possible appointment at dinner in London on Thursday night with William Hague, the foreign secretary.
Farron said the donation of £2.1m to the party by Labour peer Lord Sainsbury before the EU referendum showed his party, rather than Labour, was seen the "movement capable of delivering a pro-European campaign" – a pitch to other Labour donors who have expressed some hesitation at supporting the party under Corbyn's leadership.
Pearson's tenure proved electorally unsuccessful, but the peer successfully started linking anti-EU politics with a public concern about immigration.
Similarly, the peers want British citizens living in other EU countries to be given the vote.
