The man that drove Totten and LaFreniere through Montenegro has fetched out the finest wisecrack of the week – and it’s only Monday. Asked in sign language whether Montenegro (population 678,000) should be a part of the European Union, Ratko answered “No! Big Yugoslavia!”

As an expression of the aspirations of a small country (like Ireland, hey?) facing the overwhelming mass of unelected busybodies of a supranational club of insider-bureaucrats, he nailed it.

Oh, Yugoslavia sort of worked after the Tito regime had “repressed” a few hundred thousand folks who held different opinions of governance, particularly after the US bathed them in money following their parting with Stalin. But the money ran out, and so did Tito’s life, and Yugoslavia self-destructed soon after.

Is Ratko far-seeing enough to predict the EU following that path of self-destruction?