'Three years is just fine' for safeguards and Podgorica should keep its foreign policy veto, says Montenegro
Montenegro should not be subject to the same safeguards as other EU membership hopefuls, the country’s EU minister Maida Gorčević told Euractiv in an interview.
On Monday, Marta Kos, the EU’s enlargement chief, said new EU countries could face probationary measures and restrictions for more than a decade after accession.
Her proposals come as EU leaders debate whether incoming members should be prevented from wielding national vetoes on some of the bloc’s most contentious issues, such as foreign policy.
“We are not against a reasonable transitional period,” said Gorčević, a pro-EU minister from Montenegro’s centrist Europe Now movement who has served as the country’s EU affairs minister since 2023.
