Montenegro makes 3 more steps in EU entry talks, but still at stalemate with Croatia over bilateral longstanding disputes

Brussels, 12 October 2026, dtt-net.com – The frontrunner of all seven candidate countries, [plus Türkiye waiting since 1999 with no steps made at all, and Kosovo as “potential” candidate], for membership in the European bloc, Montenegro today opened three more negotiating chapters in accession talks, with 12 more to go until conclusion of the negotiations. Today in Brussels, EU and Montenegro government of the Prime Minister Milojko Spajic, closed accession negotiations in the areas of economic and monetary policy, statistics, and social policy and employment, by “provisionally” closing entry talks on economic and monetary policy (Chapter 17), statistics (Chapter 18) and Social Policy and Employment (Chapter 19).