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Spajić: This confirms that we are building institutions capable of protecting competition, ensuring a level playing field and safeguarding the European Union’s external borders At today’s Intergovernmental Conference on Accession held in Brussels, Montenegro closed two negotiating chapters: Chapter 8 – Competition Policy and Chapter 29 – Customs Union, bringing the total number of closed chapters to 18. Addressing the participants, Prime MinisterMilojko Spajićstressed that Montenegro has once …

Prime MinisterMilojko Spajićis leading the delegation that will participate today, 14 July, in the EU-Montenegro Intergovernmental Conference in Brussels, where negotiating Chapter 8 – Competition Policy and Chapter 29 – Customs Union will be provisionally closed. By closing these two negotiating chapters, which fall under Clusters 2 and 3, Montenegro confirms that it has achieved the necessary level of alignment with the European Union acquis in the areas of competition policy and the customs …

“Within seven days our cabinet took important steps and the first successful move is that after months of stress for citizens and for institutions, the government submitted the 2026 budget bill. Thus, we move the country out of the inertia that was our legacy from the Jeliazkov and Gurov cabinets and set it on a sustainable course.” This was stated by Prime Minister Rumen Radev at the opening of today’s cabinet sitting in the Government Headquarters. The Prime Minister emphasized that the 2026 …

Military operations in Ukraine and in the Middle East clearly demonstrate to the European countries that ensuring security of their citizens is an ultimate responsibility and calls for systematic actions. This was stated by Prime Minister Rumen Radev who attended the NATO Summit in Ankara. The Prime Minister emphasized that the Summit is taking place at a crucial time of a deepening transformation of the Alliance which demonstrates the need and the ambition of the European member states to assu…

Montenegro and the Republic of Türkiye will, in the shortest possible timeframe, proceed with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on the establishment of a High-Level Cooperation Council, with the aim of further advancing bilateral cooperation. This was agreed during a meeting between Prime MinisterMilojko Spajićand President of the Republic of TürkiyeRecep Tayyip Erdoğan, held in Ankara. Prime Minister Milojko Spajić was in Türkiye for the NATO Summit and used the opportunity to meet …

Montenegro is setting an example for other candidate countries and has Hungary's full support to become the next member of the European Union by 2028, was the key message from the meeting between Prime MinisterMilojko Spajićand Prime Minister of HungaryPéter Magyar, held on the margins of the NATO Summit in Ankara. Prime Minister Spajić and Prime Minister Magyar discussed bilateral relations, cooperation within NATO, and Montenegro's European perspective. Prime Minister Magyar said that Hungar…

Prime Minister Janez Janša at the NATO Summit |Author Office of the Prime Minister He emphasised that the declaration adopted at the summit sent an important signal of unity within the Alliance at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions. "This was one of those summits we can be satisfied with. The adopted declaration provides answers to all the key challenges. Great unity was demonstrated," he said. He also stressed the broader significance of the Alliance: "We find ourselves in a geostrateg…