26.03.2009. Integration pace depends also on economic factors
Podgorica, (MINA-BUSINESS) – The accession of Montenegro to European Union (EU) is a road conditioned by political factors, but the pace of this process depends also on economic factors, the TRIM MNE project expert, Milos Vukcevic estimates.
„Faster economic development of the candidate states improves, as a rule, their chances for full membership in the EU” Vukcevic said at the seminar on internal market and free flow of commodities, finalizing today in Podgorica.
Vukcevic reminded that the regulations on the free flow of goods between EU and Montenegro came in force on January 1 last year, as part of the Interim Trade Agreement.
He estimated that Montenegro needed to comply with the legal regulations of the EU internal market, if it intended to become a full member of the EU.
TRIM MNE is the EU project managed by the European Commission Delegation to Montenegro, and implemented by the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), in cooperation with the Montenegrin Ministry for Economic Development.