ЕС също така призна "особения характер на Държавния съюз Сърбия-Черна Гора....,което не трябва да бъде пречка, ако общите институции и пазар действат в унисон и са единни".
The EU has also acknowledged "the specific nature of the state union of Serbia-Montenegro ... which need not be a hurdle, if its common institutions and market act in accord and are unified." But European officals caution that Serbian politicians must be prepared to accept responsibility for some of their mistakes, without falling back on the "inherited difficulties" argument.