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Montenegro
Talks with the EU on a Stability and Association Agreement (SAA) began shortly after the country voted, in May 2006, to end its union with Serbia.

They are now all but finished. It will take a few years for the pact to be ratified in the 25 member states, and for Montenegro to be given EU candidate status.

Montenegro's former Prime Minister, Milo Djukanovic, said he hoped his country would succeed in joining the EU before Serbia or Macedonia.

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