FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Montenegro hopes to join the European Union and the euro zone in 2028, Prime Minister Milojko Spajic said on Tuesday, in what would mark some progress in the EU’s stalled eastward expansion.

Spajic told reporters the small Balkan nation, whose economy almost doubled in the last five years, was also looking to sell fresh government bonds to institutional or retail investors.

The EU has been making a renewed push to bring in new members since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, saying the outbreak of war has highlighted the danger of having “grey zones” just outside the bloc that are not firmly part of the West.

Spajic said he was aiming to meet the remaining criteria set by the European Commission — mainly relating to building up institutions — by the end of next y

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