Former U.S. president Bill Clinton told historian Taylor Branch that Europe did not do everything it could have done to help Bosnia-Herzegovina. He said that Bosnia did not receive this help because of the European fear of a Muslim state on its territory.

Montenegrin Deputy Prime Minister Svetozar Marović said that Serbia should be Montenegro’s closest ally in the region. “We expect Serbia to have the same opinion of Montenegro,” Marović said .

Two of the major political parties in Romania refused to join talks on forming a new government on Sunday (8 November), even after international lenders warned that they would not release a payment of €1 billion as long as no real cabinet is in place.