The European Commission is working on the report which will serve as a basis for the European Council’s decision on the opening of accession talks with Montenegro. Therefore, Montenegro is required to achieve new, measurable results in the area of strengthening the rule of law and fight against corruption and organised crime by mid-June, Stefano Sannio, Director of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Enlargement, remarked ....
Minister of Foreign Affairs Vuk Jeremic and Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland said today that the Council of Europe plays an important role in further European integration of Serbia. Jeremic told a news conference that Serbia will strongly, through diplomatic means, oppose any attempts to Kosovo's membership in that organisation. The agreement between Belgrade and Pristina in Brussels The Minister reiterated ....
The EU expert mission stays in Montenegro until Friday to examine Montenegro‘s achievements in the field of rule of law, with special emphasis on fight against corruption and organised crime. During the next four days, the 3-member expert mission will hold 50 meetings with 18 Montenegrin institutions dealing with these challenges and visit municipalities of Ulcinj and Budva, Chief Negotiator for EU accession Aleksandar Pejović said ....
As Serbia is granted candidacy to become the newest kid of the EU bloc, the country will face difficult questions and need to resolve many issues. Not only will the work begin to improve and develop Serbia’s political, business and social structures if Serbia is to take up this opportunity to join EU nations, but also the government must fight at the ballot boxes before ....
Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki held Monday a working breakfast with ambassadors of EU member-states to the Republic of Macedonia, reaffirming arguments for sooner opening of accession negotiations while underlining the common benefits of the process for Macedonia and the Union, including Greece. FM Poposki asked the ambassadors, i.e. the member-states they represent, for sooner adoption of the deserving decision for start of the accession negotiations ....
The Serbian public has received mostly approvingly, but without much euphoria, the long-anticipated news of the country achieving EU candidate status. Beta, EurActiv's partner agency in Serbia, reports. The dispassionate tone was also given by Serbian President Boris Tadić – usually prone to optimistic statements – who pointed out that while this is a great achievement, it is not "epochal". The decision on candidacy was ....
Serbia clinched its coveted status of EU candidate country at a summit in Brussels last night (1 March), after Bucharest dropped its opposition following an agreement on a roadmap that should see Romania enter the Schengen passport-free area in September. As Romanian President Traian Băsescu arrived at the summit, it was already clear that he had dropped his opposition to Serbia's EU candidate status. The coveted status is a ....
EU wants to see a responsible, pro-European attitude of all political parties to European issues in the Montenegrin Parliament, as European perspective is everyone’s perspective, Miroslav Lajcak, Managing Director for Russia, Eastern Neighbourhood and the Western Balkans in European External Action Service, told the press after talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Milan Roćen. “There is a need for political dialogue on ....
