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Montenegro

Montenegro is an official candidate for membership of the European Union.

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  • Candidate country
  • Uses the euro

Relationship with the EU

  1. December 2008Applied for membership
  2. December 2010Candidate status granted
  3. 29 June 2012Accession negotiations opened

Uses the euro unilaterally, without a monetary agreement with the EU.

Data

GDP per capita in purchasing power standards54

Eurostat, 2025. Scale 0 to 260.

Milestones

Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian and Croatian are also in common use.

  1. 2006Parliament declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. enlargement.ec.europa.eu
  2. 28 June 2006Admitted to the United Nations. un.org
  3. 11 May 2007Joins the Council of Europe. archive.org
  4. 2008Applies for EU membership. enlargement.ec.europa.eu
  5. 2010Granted EU candidate status. enlargement.ec.europa.eu
  6. 29 June 2012EU accession negotiations open. enlargement.ec.europa.eu
  7. 5 June 2017Joins NATO. nato.int

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