In the EU there is no request to terminate access negotiations with Montenegro

In the European Union (EU), there is no request for interruption of access negotiations with Montenegro, the Radio Slobodna Europe (RSE) from the Swedish presidency of the European Union (EU) said.

We are not familiar with the fact that there is a request to suspend access negotiations with Montenegro - they told RSE.

The written answer points out that open internal political issues will be resolved in the near future and that the reform path can continue.

The EU and Sweden closely monitor development in Montenegro and are ready to continue to support the country - according to a written response.

Specifically, the possibility of interrupting access negotiations between Brussels and Podgorica due to the institutional crisis in Montenegro was first spoken by the minister of medical affairs of Slovenia by Tanja Fajon. At the press conference in Podgorica on January 15, there is a great threat to stop the approaching negotiations of Montenegro with the European Union, if the sixth attempt to unblock the Constitutional Court fails.

Montenegro was considered a leader in the region in the EU accession process. Since 2012, when the access to the negotiations began, she managed to open 33 chapters and to close only three. Since 2020, there have been no longer a shift in the process of complaining negotiations due to insufficient results in the reform process.

Unfortunately, the reforms and processes of making decisions are in the downtime of the last few years - the Swedish presidency said.

Montenegro is found in a serious institutional crisis. Since September last year, the Constitutional Court of Montenegro has been blocked, because of the seven judges there are only three, which is why it cannot decide on constitutional complaints, nor can they be completed by electoral processes without decisions of that court.

The Government of Montenegro is functioning without the trust of parliament last year.

The European Union, the United States of America and other Western partners, have already appeal to the Political Subjects in Montenegro to agree on the unblocking of institutions, above all the Constitutional Court, in order to organize early elections.

Meanwhile, a new procedure for four missing judges of the Constitutional Court began in the Montenegrin Assembly, as 27 lawyers applied for the competition. The judges choose Parliament with a two -thirds majority, which means that in addition to parliamentary majority, the candidate must vote and part of the opposition.

EU Member States of EU Member States, on Monday, January 23, is discussing the crisis in Montenegro on 23rd January. The heads of European diplomats are submitted by the reports of the abroad Polsovo Slovenia Tanja Fajon, and the Austrian Minister of Outs' Affairs Aleksandar Saleberg. In December, the two visited Montenegro on behalf of the EU High Representative for the common external politics and the carelessness Joseph Borel.

M.J.