Seeking rapid eu membership. But could regional instability and outside meddling thwart his ambition . President jakov milatovic, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Its a great pleasure to have you. You have made it quite clear your overriding political ambition and aim is to get montenegro into the eu within the next five years. But its not going well, is it . Exactly. I think that that is why i have entered montenegrin politics a few years ago, to bring the country to the eu, and this is what i am doing on a daily basis, pushing for it. I think that all the good things are not easy. And in that way, we are trying our best. But pushing for it is one thing, promising your people that within a term a five year term you can deliver it is quite another. And surely you have made a promise that you cant keep. No, thats not really true. I think that we can keep the promise and i think that having montenegro into the eu within the next five years is a very realistic thing to do. I
But its not going well, is it . Exactly. I think that that is why i have entered montenegrin politics a few years ago, to bring the country to the eu, and this is what i am doing on a daily basis, pushing for it. I think that all the good things are not easy. And in that way, we are trying our best. But pushing for it is one thing, promising your people that within a term a five year term you can deliver it is quite another. And surely you have made a promise that you cant keep. No, thats not really true. I think that we can keep the promise and i think that having montenegro into the eu within the next five years is a very realistic thing to do. I think that montenegro has been negotiating with the eu for the last ten years. We have been, out of all the candidate countries, the frontrunner. Montenegro is the only country without any big problems with their neighbours in the western balkans, which is a rare thing in our region. As i understand it, right now, montenegro is negotiating a
But its not going well, is it . Exactly. I think that that is why i have entered montenegrin politics a few years ago, to bring the country to the eu, and this is what i am doing on a daily basis, pushing for it. I think that all the good things are not easy. And in that way, we are trying our best. But pushing for it is one thing, promising your people that within a term a five year term you can deliver it is quite another. And surely you have made a promise that you cant keep. No, thats not really true. I think that we can keep the promise and i think that having montenegro into the eu within the next five years is a very realistic thing to do. I think that montenegro has been negotiating with the eu for the last ten years. We have been, out of all the candidate countries, the frontrunner. Montenegro is the only country without any big problems with their neighbours in the western balkans, which is a rare thing in our region. As i understand it, right now, montenegro is negotiating a
agencies here where we expect to learn many more details, perhaps even the results of the testing on that corpse. also, there were two other men seen on video with savannah the night she went missing, so perhaps we will learn more about their status this afternoon. dana? dana: matt finn, thank you. a look at some other stories as our daily three. the wife of david ortiz said he is recovering after his third surgery linked to his bullet wound. she was not last month at a bar in the dominican republic. second, the homelessness rate in san francisco sky rocketing, jumping 30% since 2017. number three, one of the country s largest teachers union suing the department of education over a federal program that promised a wipe away the remainder of their federal student loan debt if they made regular payments for ten years. the union said more than 1 million teachers applied, but only 1% got their loan forgiveness approved. a philanthropist donating
and so this is a process that the democrats have created and it is entirely now up to us to try to make sure that dr. ford has her side of the story heard as well as judge kavanaugh. and we hope that she will take advantage of that opportunity and we can move forward with this process. in the meantime, we continue to get record economic news. in addition to having 4.2% economic growth in the second quarter of this year, very robust number, we also saw middle income levels reach their highest level ever in 2017. number of job openings, highest level ever. and at 6.94 million job opening. and then also we ve seen the small business so listening to some of the leaders in the republican conference there reiterating just the bit we had gotten a second ago. it sounds like david chalian i ll put this to you, it sounds like again mitch mcconnell again