According to the leaked draft conclusions that the European Council will adopt on Friday, accession negotiations with Montenegro will start in June after the Commission assesses its progress in carying out reforms on rule of law, respect for fundamental rights and repressing corruption and organised crime.
Montenegrin media report that while most EU countries have supported a start to negotiations with Montenegro, France remains a problem. For setting a date for opening of the accession negotiations, all 27 members must vote unanimously.
The European Commission recommended opening talks with Montenegro in October. However, while negotiations with previous applicants began with issues such as science and culture, Brussels has announced it will now take a new approach regarding new applicants from the Balkans.
Would-be members such as Montenegro will have to open talks with the most challenging “chapters” in the accession process. These are chapters 23 and 24, dealing with the rule of law and the fight against organised crime and corruption.
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....." progress in carying out reforms on rule of law, respect for fundamental rights and repressing corruption and organised crime."
Montenegro is far from achieving these reforms and civic obligation for its citizens. They definitively are steering in a wrong direction when it comes to the Albanians. The Montenegrin institutions have done absolutely nothing to fulfill the basic rights for its minority. I hope that the Albanians in Montenegro and in diaspora, will be clever and organized sufficiently to bring the Albanian issue to the highest diplomatic level in Europe and the USA- before Montenegro moves forward with the EC accession.
That needs to come from Albanians in MZ, not the USA.
Perfect opportunity to upend Gegovic!
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