“The important thing for us, why we need to be a part of the EU, is clearly frequent values that all of us consider in, and secondly, it’s the one market, it’s half a billion folks versus half 1,000,000 Montenegrins,” Spajić stated. “And the third factor is it’s a peace venture, perhaps even the final peace venture on Earth now as of late, so that is the worth of the European Union.”
Throughout Europe, non-EU nations from Iceland to Moldova have more and more expressed curiosity in becoming a member of the bloc for safety and security reasonably than merely commerce and financial advantages following Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Donald Trump’s threats to grab Greenland.
Montenegro is by far probably the most superior candidate nation in accession negotiations, having closed 14 of 33 negotiating chapters, the factors required to affix the EU. However some member nations are skeptical about including new members and first need to reform the bloc’s decision-making course of.
Spajić stated Podgorica, which has set an bold goal of becoming a member of the EU by 2028, was “80, 90 % there” on the subject of closing the remaining chapters and was “very assured” of doing so by the top of 2026.
“A few of the issues that we’re doing now, the reforms we’re doing, they’re completely unprecedented,” he stated.
By becoming a member of the EU, Montenegro would “give hope to the Western Balkans” together with “preserving enlargement as a really, very sturdy instrument of the European Union,” Spajić argued.
