The European Parliament adopted its 2025 report on Montenegro by 486 for, 101 against, and 75 abstentions. EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA, and most of ECR voted in favour; PfE and ESN voted against, and The Left largely abstained. As a non-legislative own-initiative report, the resolution carries no direct legal force, but it constitutes Parliament's formal political position on Montenegro's accession path and is intended to press the Commission and Council to sustain momentum toward membership. The amendment votes revealed a consistent cleavage between the mainstream political centre — EPP, S&D, and Renew — and the right-wing blocs PfE and ESN. The centre successfully wrote into the text a Council ad hoc working group to draft Montenegro's accession treaty (Am 3), a formal condemnation of reported Serbian-linked interference at the Tivat summit (Am 5), and a call for full implementation of the Law on Registered Partnerships (para 31). On all three, PfE and ESN voted against. A further amendment clarifying Council authorisation for roaming-extension negotiations (Am 4) passed with even broader support, including most of ECR and a portion of PfE. The one amendment that fell — Am 1, which would have labelled Montenegro a major drug-trafficking corridor incompatible with credible accession — was proposed mainly from the right (ESN and PfE) and rejected by the grand coalition by 433 votes. The clearest internal deviation came within PfE itself: a significant share of PfE delegations — including Fidesz, Lega, PVV, ANO 2011, and Vlaams Belang — broke from their group's overall sceptical line to support the final resolution, producing PfE's final-vote split of 7 for against 52 against.
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