Following the conference organized by the Centre for Civic Education, dedicated to the EU negotiations that started nine years ago, Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic told the press that the information about his alleged arrest because of the fundamental agreement with the Serbian Orthodox Church, SPC, was absolutely reliable. He also said he respected the country’s legal system and would respond to the special state prosecutor’s call, if he invited him.
In an introductory address at today’s conference ‘Nine years of Montenegrin negotiations with the EU’, it was noted that the European idea in Montenegro seems to be the only one that has a constructive potential to integrate the largest part of citizens and make the society more cohesive. If everybody contributes to this goal, the country is likely to enter the EU in 2024.
According to the Montenegrin Prime Minister, Montenegro may enter the EU in 2024 but “only if everybody works hard and figures out that it’s the only path in which everybody provides their own contribution”.
He recalls that Montenegro for now doesn’t have a functional EU mission nor the man who’s supposed to present visible outcomes in Brussels.
PM Krivokapic also announces that the Ministry of Justice, Human and Minority Rights will get two new state secretaries, and one of them will be running the working group in charge of Chapter 23, in an endeavour to overcome current weakness.
