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Montenegro to join the EU by 2025

Prime minister Duško Marković today assessed that Montenegro has completed the most demanding part in the process of European integration, that closing of negotiation chapters represents an easier part of the integration process and that our country will most certainly join the European Union (EU) before 2025 or in 2025.

He said: “Over the past thirty years, the European perspective of the Western Balkans has never been more certain and the Balkans have never been in a better position. That doesn’t mean we’re not exposed to risks. Instabilities come as the result of various processes on the global scene. An extremely rapid increase in protectionism and populist ideas and developments in the economic context – such as tensions between big economies such as China, the U.S. and the EU. In this context, the Balkans are implementing its European agenda, and Montenegro and Serbia are the frontrunners on this path. The question is, are we successful? We have a serious and great result as this is the technical issue.”

Opening the chapters, according to PM Marković, represents an essential process of changes in the country and society. “Therefore, when working on opening the chapters, we are working on changes in society which lead us to a better perspective. Montenegro is not rushing with the date of its membership. We think it should have been faster, but that does not depend on us.”

Marković continued: “As for the deadlines, the process of closing the chapters will be easier than the first one. We will join the EU before 2025 or maybe in 2025.”

He added that since 2007, the EU has invested EUR 700 million in Montenegro, EUR 200 million of which was invested in the infrastructure.

The conference “The Balkans and the European Union – a five-year cycle of the Berlin Process” organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Montenegro (PKCG), was opened by the President of Montenegro, Milo Đukanović, Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria, Sebastian Kurz, and the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Vlastimir Golubović.

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