Talk:Serbia and Montenegro

Official name?

The constitution of 2003 uses the terms Serbia and Montenegro and State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 03:25, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

The state was called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992-2003) and the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006). It was a Dominant Party Federal Republic between 1992-2000, a regular, Democratic, Federal Republic between 2000-2003, and a State Union (essential Confederacy) from 2003 until Montenegro's independence in 2006. Azaan H 14:45, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

I've seen the colloquial term New Yugoslavia in maps and in road signs like this(https://i0.wp.com/aparaskevi-images.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/%CE%A4%CE%B1%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%B1-%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85-%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%87%CE%B5-%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B8%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%B8%CE%AE-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BD-%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%B4%CE%BF-%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82-%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B7%CF%82-copy.jpg). I do not know for how long was the colloquial term "New Yugoslavia" in use, but I guess it would have been from the late months of rump SURE to the first year or so of the FRY. I have also found instances of it in French sites, like this (https://mjp.univ-perp.fr/constit/yu.htm) and this Communique by the Foreign Ministers of then EEC(https://www.vie-publique.fr/discours/129176-communique-des-pays-de-la-cee-sur-les-affrontements-armes-entre-serbes). Any ideas? Thanmad Productions (talk) 07:49, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

So what? Both French site uses this once each as a descriptive phrase in rather long texts. It's not any kind of common moniker, and has never been in widespread use. I don't see it worth including in the article even as a mention, let alone as a common alternative name. No such user (talk) 08:06, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Government section, infobox

There is an "ongoing" edit war in the government section in the infobox and since this can't really go on I would want this to be discussed. My solution would be to leave it as "Federal republic (1992-2003) under a dominant-party system (1993-2000) and Confederal constitutional republic (2003-2006)" with Dobrica Ćosić, Slobodan Milošević and Svetozar Milošević listed as heads of the state and Milan Panić and Svetozar Marović listed as the heads of the government. Besides their names, I added a ref tag with the name of the official name of the government title that was used at the time. Alfred the Lesser/Alexiod Palaiologos has been constantly reverting my edit without explaining anything, he did not contact me and we never discussed this topic. As far as I can see his solution is "Federal republic (1992-2003) under a dominant-party state (1993-2000) and Confederate constitutional republic (2003-2006)" with Dobrica Ćosić and Svetozar Marović listed as heads of the state and Milan Panić and Svetozar Marović listed as the heads of the government but without the ref tags with the official government title names. The reason why I changed it from Confederate to Confederal is that it applies more to the term "Confederation". During the existence of FRY, Slobodan Milošević was a leading figure and even though he only served the term for three years I still think that he should be mentioned in the infobox because of numerous reasons such as the involvement in the Yugoslav Wars, politics in Yugoslavia and later Serbia and many other reasons. During the existence of this country the title "President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" was only used until the proclamation of the state union while the title "Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" was never used, the official title was "President of the Federal Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" or shortened to "President of the Federal Government" which was used until 2003. You can either add the ref tags that show the official government title name of these positions or change the "President" to "Head of state" and "Prime Minister" to "Head of government". I would especially want Alfred the Lesser to join this discussion because he is a part of it and I want this to get solved asap. Vacant0 (talk) 18:19, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

I think my version of the Government infobox looks neater. I wasn't aware I was changing the names of leaders of the country and so I apologise for that. Alfred the Lesser (talk) 08:11, 16 December 2020 (UTC)