The European Commissioner for Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, stressed on the evening of Tuesday 22 June that progress in the field of the rule of law would determine the overall pace of Montenegro’s EU accession negotiations. Montenegro has already opened all its accession negotiation chapters.
“We agreed that the top priority was to meet the interim benchmarks set out in the rule of law chapters”, he said at the end of the first political intergovernmental conference. These are...