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The small nation of the Western Balkans wants to join the European Union (EU) by 2028 - but tensions with Croatia could interrupt.
Controversial voting in the Montenegrin parliament, which condemn the crimes of Croatian fascists during World War II, sated our countries to join the EU, writes politically.
"It harms us, definitely doesn't help us," said Montenegrin Prime Minister Milojko Spajić in the Brussels Policy interview before his parliament was voted by an optional resolution, which Croatia sentenced immediately.
The resolution focuses on the death camp from World War II in Jasenovac, in Croatia, managed by the Fascist Regime in the country who cooperated with Nazi Germany. Tens of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Roma and other minorities were killed in the camp.
The vote sided with a positive week for the Spajic's pro-European century government. On June 26, the Prime Minister assessed that his administration was "indeed optimistic and inflated" after overcuming a major obstacle in EU accession talks. Spajic wants to introduce his country to the EU by 2028 and says he intends to close "quite a lot of chapters" by the end of the year, while Hungary chairs EU Council meetings.
However, after the voting on the resolution, the President of the European Council of Charl Miche canceled the road to Podgorica during which it was supposed to meet with Spajić. Instead, he invited President Jakov Milatovic to Brussels.
Spajić came to power in late 2023. After the deep political instability and now leads the minority government supported by the Prospese party, it says policy.
He said that the May Resolution of the UN General Assembly is condemned by the genocide in Srebrenica, who committed Serbia in 1995 to "Hyperinflation" resolution. He added that it supports all such resolutions as long as they focus on victims, not perpetrators or history.
Montenegrin deputies have expanded their resolution at the latest moment to other historical crimes such as Nazi concentration camps in Dahau and Mauthausen.
"The UN Resolution on Srebrenica opened Pandora's box of resolution," Spajić said. "This is not our main policy, this is a digression.
The Croatian Government condemned the resolution of the Montenegrin parliament as "unacceptable, inappropriate and unnecessary" in the announcement on the IX (X) on Saturday, saying that "was adopted in order to relatify the United Nations Resolution" and risking to expel from the track Montenegro and its candidacy for EU membership.
Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Saturday that the Podgorica resolution shows the "deliberate, conscious policy division within Montenegro" and sends "to the more mutual respect and desire for good neighborly relations".
After the decay of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the Republic of the constitutive country was a series of interethnic wars conflicting Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks and Montenegrins against each other and resubmit the older complaints from World War II and earlier.
Speaking on Friday for Politiko, Spajic said that "completely" agrees to the desire of Croatia that the region does not withdraw "Back to History".
"We don't want to make history more beautiful. We just want us to make the future more beautiful, "he said. "We want absolutely best possible relationships with Croatia.
Spajić also seems to connect the timing of resolution with Russian efforts to destabilize the Western Balkans and compromise their government.
"There is a Russian narrative in Montenegro, that the European Union and the Western world support the Nazi or fascist history," he said, in case his government was not voting for the adoption of the resolution against him.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić congratulated Montenegro on Sunday, and announced that he would visit the country this month. He previously denied that there was anything to do with that measure, but in May, Serbia could give a similar proposal in the UN.
Ana Brnabić, the President of the Assembly of Serbia and the former Prime Minister of that country with the longest common, condemned Croatia on Monday for resolution, calling criticism of Croatian officials "extremely sad."
The head of the council Michel has postponed a visit to Podgorica "for a later date to provide successful talks with key interlocutors in the country, which should not be in the shadow of the latest developments," EU official for politics.
"Good neighborly relations also remain an essential element of the accession process," said the official and added that Michelle is in contact with Spajic.
The Montenegrin government official said that dissatisfied with Michel's decision to postpone and that they were worried that it would send the wrong message.
