Montenegro won’t progress on the path to the EU if it doesn’t meet the temporary criteria from Chapters 23 and 24, which concern judiciary and fundamental rights, justice, freedom and security, says MEP Tonino Picula in an interview for Gradski (City) Radio.
Mr Picula explains that if these provisional benchmarks aren’t met, other chapters won’t be able to be opened.
The new methodology in the accession negotiations will be applied to Montenegro and Serbia, although Montenegro has opened all chapters and temporarily closed three.
“Serbia has twice as bad the result, because it started negotiations on 18 chapters, but didn’t open any in two years”, Mr Picula points out.
