WORLD NEWS FOR MONTENEGRO DIASPORA
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SOURCE: ANTENA M / AUTHOR: M.J. GDNUS
The President of the Social Democrats of Montenegro (SD) and one of the leaders of the European Union, Dr. Damir Šehović, informed Prime Minister Milojko Spajić that SD will not attend the meeting regarding the "Barometer 26" platform, assessing that the document omits essential answers to European challenges, but also serves as a means for political showdown within the current parliamentary majority.
"After careful analysis of the content of the document, we inform you that we will not respond to it, because we believe that the Platform does not meet the basic criteria that would qualify it as a sufficiently high-quality framework for bringing together all political and social structures around Montenegro's European path," Šehović stated.
As he stated in his response, the impression is that the document, instead of offering concrete and measurable solutions to the significant challenges Montenegro faces on its European path, contains a series of general phrases and generalized assessments that do not address the key obstacles in the European integration process.
"Such an approach does not contribute to building a real political consensus, but can be seen as a political gesture that has no real ambition to solve our essential European challenges, but rather serves a political showdown within the parliamentary majority itself. Within which, by the way, there is also no agreement regarding this document," Šehović emphasized.
Šehović clearly emphasized that the political culprit for the challenges in European integration should not be sought in the parliamentary opposition, but in the current ruling structure, or especially in a part of the parliamentary majority, for which the Prime Minister himself bears not only functional, but also political responsibility.
"Despite its declarative commitment to the European path, this part of the government, through its actions and narrative, persistently demonstrates an anti-European and anti-Western character, disrupts relations with individual EU member states and other neighboring, traditionally friendly countries, denies the anti-fascist tradition and openly glorifies war criminals, and almost daily raises issues that contribute to new identity divisions and the spread of interethnic and interreligious hatred, which distances us from the basic values of the European Union and threatens the painstakingly created civic character of the state and society. For decades, these forces have shown a clear anti-Western orientation, which has not changed even today, despite minor, i.e. politically cheap rhetorical adjustments," explained Šehović.
He emphasized his belief that only a true and credible pro-European majority can accelerate and complete the process of European integration, and added that the current political structure does not have the capacity or confidence to lead Montenegro towards the European Union.
“The Social Democrats of Montenegro and our partners from the European Union were the founders of European values in Montenegro back in the 1990s, when the idea of a European future for our country was unacceptable to all other political actors. It is precisely thanks to our vision and perseverance that the European agenda has become an integral part of state policy. This historical responsibility obliges us to approach every issue related to our country’s European path with the utmost seriousness and responsibility,” Šehović wrote in his response.
Šehović stated that this decision represents a conscious rejection of initiatives that, as he said, do not have the real power to contribute to Montenegro’s European progress.
“Our decision not to participate in this process is the result of consistency in defending European values and a conscious refusal to support initiatives that, in our opinion, do not have the real power to contribute to Montenegro’s European progress,” Šehović concluded in his official response to Spajić.
