New program document of the Movement for Changes, entitled “Pravo, Crna Goro” (“Straight, Montenegro”), adopted at the Congress of this party on 22 March, has considerably revised this party’s program from 2006, since it has brought into question the need for Montenegro’s EU membership, whereas the part referring to NATO membership has been omitted in its entirety.
The program from 2006 defines EU and NATO membership as key foreign policy priorities of the Movement for Changes.
With this new program, Movement for Changes defines itself as Euro-skeptical party. Administration in Brussels is called “inappropriate for the implementation of the idea of uniting European continent” and “often subject to the interests of global banking fascists and corporations”.
“Movement for Changes believes that European Montenegro should be created in Montenegro, not in Brussels or some other EU Member States. This is due to the fact that the EU is in crisis, that the actual reality is in opposition to with the constituent instruments, strategic agreements and objectives, that the principle of common values has been replaced with geo-strategic interest”, reads the new document.
The closer we get to the EU membership, the farther we are from European standards and Copenhagen criteria, reads this document.
“In June of 1993, heads of states and Governments of the EU defined three criteria that candidate countries have to meet before becoming full EU Member States: political criteria – stability of institutions that guarantee democracy, rule of law, respect for human and minority rights and acceptance of the political objectives of the Union. Then, economic criteria – efficient market economy, capability of market subjects to cope with competition pressures and market legislation and the obligation to adopt the acquis communautaire of the Union”, reads the document.
Considering the real state of affairs in the country today, Movement for Changes states regretfully that the process of the adoption of EU standards in Montenegro is not successful.
They add in the document that it’s necessary to keep the distance from the bureaucrats in the European Commission and to decline political decisions rendered in the form of orders and instructions that aren’t in accordance with the vital interests of Montenegro and its citizens.
