Igor Lukšić

Montenegro has decided to establish a special prosecution office for organized crime and corruption, war crimes and human trafficking - to prove that it is a serious candidate for membership of the European Union.

A high-level conference on the economic prospects and European perspectives of the Western Balkan states opens in Berlin on August 28, including top-ranking politicians from Germany, the EU and the Balkans under the patronage of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Montenegro's government on Monday announced that the country will allow same-sex marriages in the near future.

Jovan Kojicic, Human Rights Adviser to the Prime Minister, said Montenegro was drawing up the legal framework to permit same-sex partners to legalize their relationships soon.

Foreign Affairs Minister Titus Corlatean on Friday, while paying an official visit to Montenegro, highlighted Romania's support for the national objectives of this state for the integration in the EU and NATO, shows a press release The Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) remitted to AGERPRES.

BELGRADE – Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic and his Montenegrin counterpart Dusko Markovic have signed in Podgorica an annex to the memorandum of cooperation between the respective ministries of the two countries.

Montenegro could be next EU member - German ambassador

PODGORICA -- Outgoing German Ambassador in Podgorica Pius Fischer says Montenegro could be the next member of the European Union.

He explained that the country had made "significant progress in this direction."

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic talked on Wednesday with Igor Luksic, Montenegro's deputy prime minister and foreign minister, about improvement in bilateral cooperation, especially on infrastructure projects.

Montenegro’s parliament is to debate a law on the status of NATO forces in an emergency plenary session this week, starting June 18.

"Crucially different views on dual citizenship"

BELGRADE -- Serbian FM Ivica Dačić and his visiting Montenegrin counterpart Igor Lukšić said on Tuesday the two countries should focus on the search for mutual interests.

BELGRADE - Serbia sees Montenegro as an important regional partner on the path of European integration, Serbian Minister without portfolio in charge of European integration Jadranka Joksimovic said in the talks with Montenegrin Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Igor Luksic on Tuesday.