Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Prof Dr Gordana Djurovic met today with Deputy Chief of the OSCE ODIHR Election Observation Mission to Montenegro Beata Martin-Rozumilowicz and the Mission’s Chief Analyst for Gender Equality Maurizia Marantonio. The meeting focused on the forthcoming parliamentary elections in the context of the participation of minorities in the process and an analysis of the state of gender equality in the election campaign and the participation of women in different structures of the executive, judiciary and parliamentary branches of government. More

Audio recording: Statement by Ambassador Leopold Maurer, Head of EC Delegation in Podgorica, delivered at the press conference marking the anniversary the Stabilization and Association Agreement... More

Audio recording: Press statement by DG Enlargement Director for Western Balkans Pierre Mirel. More

Deputy Prime Minister Gordana Đurović: ''Montenegro considers that the results achieved in several years of dynamic process of implementation democratic and economic reforms in country are very significant and measurable, particularly results achieved in field of strengthening the rule of law, exercising human and minority rights, legislation harmonization, institutional capacity building for gradual implementation of EU standards and procedures, as of providing conditions for creating the competition trade economy. Evident progress has been achieved particularly in period after re-gaining of independence, by directing all of the political energy and reliable resources to fulfilling criteria for EU membership... More

Audio recording: Opening speech delivered by DG Enlargement Director for Western Balkans Pierre Mirel at the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Enhanced Permanent Dialogue between Montenegro and the European Union… More

Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Gordana Djurovic has acquainted Irish Ambassador Martin Greene today with the course of the public debate on the Daft National Program for Integration from 2008 to 2012, relevant round table discussions and electronic communication with the public. Deputy Prime Minister Djurovic informed Mr Greene of the activities involved in preparing regular reports to the European Commission on the progress of Montenegro’s EU integration process, focusing on SAA implementation and the plans for building administrative capacity for European integration... More

Montenegro and the European Union have today signed a bilateral agreement on Montenegro’s accession to the World Trade Organization. The Agreement was signed by Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Gordana Djurovic and Director General of the Commission’s Directorate General for Trade David O’Sullivan.

The signing of the Agreement completes the process of bilateral negotiations between the EU and Montenegro opened in 2005. The Community is the first WTO member to conclude bilateral talks with Montenegro. More

Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Gordana Djurovic today met with Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe Erhard Busek. The talks focused on the new CEFTA Agreement, a single free-trade agreement for South Eastern Europe, which came into effect in all signatories of the Agreement in late 2007. Both sides agreed that its implementation promoted the European agenda of the region and encouraged economic cooperation following the rules of the World Trade Organization, in the course of preparations for EU accession... More

The talks focused on Montenegro’s accession to the European Union, with Deputy Prime Minister Djurovic informing her host of the progress Montenegro had made over the past year and a half. In this context, reference was made to Slovenia’s EU Presidency, particularly from the perspective of the Western Balkans as one of the Presidency’s priorities... More

THE SECOND REPORT ON REALIZATION OF MEASURES FROM THE ACTION PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAM FOR FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION AND ORGANIZED CRIME / 1.9.2006 - 31.12.2007/... More  download