European Union Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said that Montenegro will start accession talks with the European Union in June.

"The European Union continues to grow - Croatia will join us soon, Serbia has been granted candidate status and negotiations with Montenegro should start next month," Fuele said in a special video message on the occasion of European Day, the Podgorica daily Vijesti reported.

He said that enlargement is in the DNA of Europe, its transformative power which brings the reforms and changes needed to achieve European standards in all areas of life.

"The EU is not a static body. It grows, it enlarges," Fuele stressed, adding that the Union continues to be a source of inspiration with its values and living standards.

On May 9, 1950 then-French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman presented a set of measures, the Schuman Declaration, which laid the foundations of the European Union.