taz Talk über Montenegro vor der Tür der EU: Aufbruch oder Stillstand?

In the organizer's words:

Montenegro is considered the most advanced accession candidate in the Western Balkans - and yet the road to the EU is rockier than hoped. The small Adriatic country has been negotiating with Brussels since 2012, all 33 chapters have been opened and 14 provisionally closed. The government in Podgorica has set the ambitious goal of joining the EU by 2028 and the EU is also striving for accession in the near future. However, there is a gap between ambition and reality.

A discussion with:

🐾 Daliborka Uljarević hasheaded the Center for Civic Education (CCE) in Podgorica since 2002. The political scientist and expert on democracy, human rights and European integration has worked for the Council of Europe, the OSCE and the BBC, among others, and is the author of numerous relevant publications.

Ivan Vuković has been a member of the Montenegrin Parliament and Chairman of the Committee on European Integration since 2023. He was previously Mayor of Podgorica from 2018 to 2023. He is the deputy leader of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS)

Ivan Vujović has been Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro (SDP) since 2024. He studied International Relations at the University of Montenegro and was previously a long-standing foreign policy advisor in the Montenegrin parliament and an advisor at the UNDP.

🐾 Barbara Oertel will moderate . She is an editor for Eastern Europe and head of the foreign desk.

This taz Talk is being held in friendly cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

Price information:

Admission free