In an interview with the Guardian, Jacov Milatović says Brussels has an opportunity to renew its commitment to enlargement
to the principle of enlargement by admitting its longest standing applicant, Montenegro, within five years, the country’s newly elected president has said.. It would show to accession countries that the path of reform pays off,” Jakov Milatović said in an interview with the Guardian.
Milatović also emphasised that Montenegro’s pro-western orientation would not change even though the prime minister, Milatović’s ally, had been forced into an alliance with a pro-Serbia party to form a government after parliamentary elections in the summer. He vowed “100% alignment with EU foreign policy” and a “more credible” membership with Nato.from Serbia, but progress has stalled amid concerns about corruption, lingering Soviet influence and endemic political instability.
Describing himself as a realist, he said he foresaw a timetable according to which EU member states would ratify Montenegro’s membership in 2027, leading to full membership in 2028. Some of the momentum from Milatović’s election has dissipated, however, because of the inability of Milojko Spajić, the prime minister designate and co-founder of Europe Now! to form a government.His party emerged as the largest in parliamentary elections in June, winning 24 of the 81 seats in the assembly, the first time the DPS had failed to win most seats since multiparty politics was introduced in 1990.
The US fears that by forming a coalition with pro-Serb political forces, Spajić has created at best a dysfunctional government and at worst one that will have lost its pro-EU credentials.
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