Montenegro Official Submit Application EU Member

Paris, MONDAY - officially the Republic of Montenegro has to apply to become members of the European Union (EU), Monday (15/12), while re-open the issue of ambition expansion organization.Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic to convey the request at a meeting in Paris with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who now turn to lead the EU presidency, and EU expansion affairs commissioner Olli Rehn that comes from Finland.

Montenegro is a country of the former Republic of Yugoslavia secede from Serbia in 2006 after a national referendum and is now the independent state of about 680,000 people.Countries that signed the "stabilization and association agreement" with the EU in October 2007, the first phase of the efforts of that country to become EU members. Applications official on Monday is the next stage of the process of reform and long negotiations that must be passed countries applicants before they join the EU, which now has 27 members."Day for Montenegro. Also, big day for the European Union, because today they confirm their intention to integrate the European continent," PM Djukanovic said in a brief statement after meeting with French president in the Palace elysee.

European expansion has become a controversial issue in recent years, in which many countries, including France, oppose the entry of new members to the EU's internal rules reformed.

Last year, a number of EU member countries hold they have reached an agreement to harmonize rules that block with the Lisbon agreement, but this was rejected by the people of Ireland in a referendum and has not been ratified by the Czech Republic.In addition to Montenegro, Croatian, Macedonian and Turkey have also started negotiations to join the EU. Albania, Bosnia and Serbia have also become members promised the prospect that the organization, but not in the formal consultation stage.
The situation becomes complicated with the Serbian case of Kosovo, which recognized the independence and have their own ambition to become EU members. Belgrade rejected the independence that, while some EU member countries split on the issue. Countries prospective members must meet the measurements of democracy, economic and legal before they are allowed to join the EU.