Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/2020(INI)
2023 and 2024 Commission reports on Montenegro
Own-initiative report (INI): Parliament’s own position on a topic. It is not binding. · First reading
Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.
Where it stands
Parliament’s position
Parliament adopted the text on 18 June 2025. This is its final position on the matter.
- Referred to committee(done) 23 January 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 13 May 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 20 May 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 18 June 2025
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
18 June 2025 · decision 6
Foreign affairs, Resolution
2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro
Adopted 470 for · 102 against · 77 abstained by a large majority
AI summary:The resolution welcomes Montenegro's leading position in the accession process and its full alignment with EU foreign policy, while stressing the need for continued reforms, especially in rule of law and fight against corruption.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The versions differ only in formal points: punctuation in recital markers is corrected.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The report adds a new geopolitical context, stressing EU enlargement momentum and Montenegro's leading role, with a target of EU membership by 2028. It expands sections on foreign policy, security, and countering malign influence, including new calls for NATO cooperation and condemnation of interference. It significantly broadens coverage of rule of law, judiciary, corruption, and elections, adding detailed recommendations and concerns. It adds extensive new paragraphs on human rights, minorities, media freedom, civil society, and socio-economic reforms, including specific concerns about foreign debt and procurement. The other changes are formal and wording: updated forwarding instructions and rephrased explanatory statement.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Foreign Affairs
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Marjan Šarec (Renew)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Reinhold Lopatka (EPP), Costas Mavrides (S&D), Jaroslav Bžoch (Patriots), Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza (ECR), Vladimir Prebilič (Greens), Giorgos Georgiou (The Left)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 18 Jun 2025
AI summary:Parliament's resolution on Montenegro's 2023 and 2024 reports reaffirms support for EU accession, welcomes progress, and urges reforms in rule of law, fundamental rights, and socio-economic areas.
Tabled for plenary· 20 May 2025
AI summary:This resolution on the 2023 and 2024 Commission reports on Montenegro welcomes the country's progress in EU accession, including the closure of three more negotiating chapters, and calls for continued reforms in democracy, rule of law, and fundamental freedoms.
Committee draft· 18 Feb 2025
AI summary:This draft report on Montenegro's EU accession progress welcomes its reforms and alignment with EU foreign policy, while urging further work on rule of law, anti-corruption, media freedom, and socioeconomic reforms.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 4 steps
18 June 2025
Plenary vote
Sitting of 18 Jun 2025 Report A10-0093/2025Adopted text TA10-0130/2025
17 June 2025
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
10 June – 11 June 2025
8 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
20 May 2025
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps
13 May 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
AFET (Foreign Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
19 March 2025
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of AFET (Foreign Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.
18 February 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in AFET (Foreign Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
23 January 2025
Referred to the AFET (Foreign Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/2020(INI)