Teodora Lađić, the MPEU project manager and ZEI Alumni, has given contribution to the panel “Western Balkan enlargement perspective” on the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn, in Germany on 28th of June 2019. The panel was organized in honor of the graduation of the Class 2019.
Ms Lađić presented the work to recent graduates of the Montenegrin Pan-European Union and the International Pan-European Union with its Member organizations, and shared key ideas and values of the oldest Pan-European movement in Europe. It also used opportunity to present Jean Monnet TISIM project of the MPEU in relation to the sustainability agenda and European integration process in connection to the recent published ZEI Future of Europe Observer on the similar topic.
Moreover, Ms Lađić presented the view of Montenegro in the enlargement process, emphasizing the most advanced role in the negotiation process with the EU and the visible reforms that are conducted in Montenegrin society. On the other hand, she cast light on the duration of process and the pressure to bring it to a closure, having in mind the vast number of negotiation chapters that need to be closed. However, she mentioned one key note, that the reforms and the accession process with the EU are crucial mechanisms for Montenegro and its citizens to attain better standards in that respect Montenegro has to continue with the reform Agenda no matter of indirectly announced enlargement fatigue of the EU due to its own challenges and the need for consolidation.
