Odbor za vanjske poslove

On Tuesday 16 April, the Committee on Foreign Affairs will discuss Montenegro's progress on EU-related reforms with Prime Minister Milojko Spajić. The meeting is organised in association with the Delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee. Montenegro applied for EU membership in 2008, and started accession negotiations in 2012. So far, 33 of 35 negotiation chapters have been opened.

On Wednesday, 20 March, Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a presentation, by the authors, of an in-depth analysis on Ukraine’s 10-point peace plan and the Kyiv security compact.

On Tuesday, 19 March, Foreign Affairs Committee will have an exchange of views with several Ministers, vice-Ministers and Secretaries of State of EU Member States on EU enlargement policy ahead of the European Council meeting end of March. This exchange of views is intended to hear the different opinions on the topic and to gather ideas to deal with the challenges the EU enlargement policy will face in the future.

On Monday 11 March, the committees on Foreign Affairs and on Budgets will vote on a draft report on the Commission's proposal for Establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans. The draft report prepared jointly by the two committees proposes more safeguards for the “fundamentals-first approach”, strengthening the focus on rule of law and conditionality and linking this with economic and social development.