30/09/2024 (Agence Europe) – Gert Jan Koopman, Director General of the European Commission’s DG for Neighbourhood and Enlargement (NEAR), is optimistic about the candidate countries’ progress towards European integration. “We plan to close as many chapters in the next few months as we have in the last decade”, he told MEPs on the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs. Montenegro, in particular, “should be integrated into the internal market by 1 January next...