Montenegro

Two EPC commentaries accept stronger post-accession tools, then ask what protects the Union when the special regime ends

Gradual access to selected policies, stronger post-accession safeguards, and a renewed push to drop unanimity on sanctions and foreign policy

Zagreb says the tall ship Jadran is only part of a claim covering vessels, submarines and other assets that shifted from Croatian to Montenegrin locations after 1990

Commission draft outlines gradual integration for candidates, with Chisinau and Kyiv cited as early beneficiaries in trade, energy and roaming

Andrija Mandić keeps the speakership, but his condolences to the Mladić family have split the ruling majority and put Montenegro’s final EU reforms at risk

Budva apartment search yields about €1 million in mixed currencies, a polygraph, IT and comms gear, plus suspected counterfeit notes

Before the next wave of EU enlargement takes place, the union needs to grapple with thorny questions of how power is distributed among its members

Five MEPs say Andrija Mandić’s condolences for Ratko Mladić carry institutional weight and complicate Podgorica’s EU path

Maida Gorčević says Montenegro will take safeguards - but not limited rights - as it waits on the Commission’s proposal

The issue returns to the General Affairs Council on 22 September, under the heading “official languages and enlargement”

The perpetrator was photographed by locals who had invited him to share their lunch by the river, and describer him as cold, but smiling

Prime Minister Milojko Spajić said he had received serious intelligence indicating hostile action from two countries he didn't name