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Status | Candidate negotiating (screening complete) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Earliest possible entry | 2028 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Accession of Montenegro to the European Union is on the agenda for future enlargement of the EU.
Shortly after voting for independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in a referendum in 2006, Montenegro began the process of accession to the European Union by agreeing to a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU, which officially came into force on 1 May 2010.
Montenegro officially applied to join the EU on 15 December 2008, and membership negotiations began on 29 June 2012. With all the negotiating chapters opened, the country enjoys widespread support among EU members' officials, and the accession of the country to the EU was considered possible by 2025 as of March 2021.[1] However, as of February 2024, thirty out of 33 chapters remain to be closed.
It is one of nine current EU candidate countries, together with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine.
Chief negotiator Predrag Zenović named accession by 2028 as realistic.[2]
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