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EU risks ‘losing credibility’ if it fails to enlarge, Montenegro’s deputy PM warns

The European Union will pay a “huge” geopolitical cost and “lose credibility" if it fails to enlarge, Montenegro’s Deputy Prime Minister Filip Ivanović has told Euronews.

Speaking in a one-on-one interview during Euronews’ enlargement summit in Brussels on Tuesday, Ivanović said: “If enlargement does not happen — not just with Montenegro but also with other candidate countries — then the very concept of the European Union loses its credibility: It's not European, and it's not a union anymore.”

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