COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,update

 

Meetings Friday, 27 June 2025

● International ministerial meetings   27/06/2025 20:22 | Meetings | Main results - 23rd Accession Conference with Montenegro, 27 June 2025   The twenty third meeting of the Accession Conference with Montenegro was held today in Brussels. The meeting served to provisionally close negotiations with Montenegro on Chapter 5 ‘Public procurement’.

● Council of the EU

27/06/2025 20:14 | Press release | EU and Montenegro provisionally close public procurement chapter in accession negotiations   Today, the 23rd meeting of the Accession Conference with Montenegro provisionally closed accession negotiations on chapter 5 on public procurement. “The EU welcomes Montenegro’s progress in closing chapter 5 on public procurement. This marks the seventh negotiating chapter closed - a meaningful step forward on Montenegro’s path towards European integration.” — Adam Szłapka, Minister for European Affairs of Poland, on behalf of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU The EU may, if necessary, return to this chapter at an appropriate moment. Today’s closure follows the latest meeting of the Accession Conference with Montenegro on 16 December 2024, where chapters 7 (intellectual property), 10 (information society and media) and 20 (enterprise and industrial policy) were provisionally closed. Monitoring of progress in the alignment with and implementation of the EU acquis will continue throughout the negotiations. Montenegro has opened 33 negotiating chapters in its EU accession negotiations. With the provisional closure agreed today, a total of seven of these chapters have now been provisionally closed. According to the negotiating principles endorsed by the Accession Conference, agreements reached in the course of negotiations on specific chapters, even partial ones, may not be considered as final until an overall agreement has been reached for all chapters. The European Union delegation was led by Ambassador Agnieszka Bartol, Permanent Representative of Poland to the EU, on behalf of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU, with the participation of Director General for Enlargement and the Eastern Neighbourhood, Mr Gert Jan Koopman. The Montenegrin delegation was led by Mr Milojko Spajić, Prime Minister of Montenegro. EU common position regarding chapter 5 Seventeenth meeting of the Accession Conference with Montenegro at ministerial level (press release, 16 December 2024) Council conclusions on enlargement, 12 December 2023 Enlargement: new enlargement methodology will be applied to Montenegro and Serbia (press release, 11 May 2021) Montenegro (background information) How EU enlargement works (background information)

● General Secretariat of the Council

27/06/2025 17:28 | Press release | Forward look: 30 June - 13 July 2025   Overview of the main topics and events at the Council of EU and European Council for the coming fortnight. Economic and Financial Affairs Council, 8 July 2025 The Council is expected to adopt the final legislative acts paving the way for Bulgaria to begin using the euro as its official currency as of 1 January 2026 and will be invited to approve the use of the national escape clause under the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) in member states. Ministers will hold a policy debate on the single currency package, including the proposal towards a digital euro. The Council is also expected to adopt decisions and recommendations regarding certain member states under the excessive deficit procedure. Read more Other meetings EU-Moldova summit, 4 July 2025 Eurogroup, 7 July 2025 Informal meeting of employment ministers, 7-8 July 2025 Informal meeting of environment ministers, 10-11 July 2025 Indicative calendar of meetings under the Polish presidency (1 January - 30 June 2025) Polish presidency Indicative calendar of meetings under the Danish presidency (1 July - 31 December 2025) Danish presidency