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In the period of legislation adaptation for accession to the EU, Chapter 9 – Financial Services, Montenegro needs to pay special attention to technical assistance to the Central Bank of Montenegro.

Montenegro has to, in a period of adaptation of legislation for accession to the EU in Chapter 9 – »Financial Services« pay special attention to insurance supervision. In the framework of project: “Assistance to Montenegro in negotiations on accession to the EU-2016” a workshop for the staff of Insurance Supervision Agency of Montenegro was conducted on 12 and 13 September. The workshop was based on the training of civil servants in the scope of transition to a new system of European supervision, Solvency II. It as well included all the challenges that are awaiting Montenegro’s insurance sector in the implementation of the requirements related to the quality of corporate insurance governance and their risk management system. In this manner Slovenia’s experience in the implementation of European directives, and the transition to the new control system were presented.

The possibility of public to access data in public databases by internet, enabling the reuse of this data and enabling simple insight into the use of public funds are the foundation for ensuring transparent and open functioning of contemporary public administration. Transparency, openness, accountability, connectivity and modernisation are principles, which are followed by the European Single Digital Market with the aim of better quality services for citizens and businesses.

On 5th and 6th September Bled hosted the 11th Bled Strategic Forum titled “Safeguarding the Future.” This year’s Forum was dedicated to current challenges that have shaken the foundations of our collective security as well as how to effectively respond to our common issues. While Forum addressed the issues of radicalisation, future of the EU and its pull factor for Western Balkan countries, energy geopolitics, human in addition to EU security, media coverage of terrorism and global water risks, was the business part of the Forum focused on the digital transformation of the society, smart cities concept, mobility and the future of automotive industry as well as security and sustainability in tourism. In spite of current events, the visit of Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs H.E. Mr Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu that spoke on Gradual Disintegration of the EU Political Orbit and a New Geopolitical Configuration of the Euro-Asian Space has also attracted much attention.