6/29/2023 0 Comments The road to nowhere map![]() ![]() ![]() It is his belief that 100 million euros have been stolen from the project. He believes that choosing Europe would have meant more checks would have been done "and the construction would be done by now". Bojan also knows of subcontractors hiring illegal workers from neighboring countries, workers with no contracts or social security contributions.īojan tells us that he would have preferred Montenegro to choose Europe for this loan instead of China. The Chinese contractor brought in its own workers. Politicians promised lorry drivers, like him, that the motorway would create thousands of jobs, but Bojan got nothing. Part of his property was expropriated for the motorway project, but he was not fully compensated.īojan Rajković, a lorry driver Montenegro He and his family have lived in Montenegro for generations. The first section was scheduled to be finished in 2020, but it still isn't. The motorway should link Bar harbour in the south to the border with Serbia in the north. Now, with the pandemic crushing Montenegro’s tourism-dependent economy, the country is struggling to find a way to finance the missing stretches of road. ![]() The European Investment Bank and the IMF also announced that it was a bad idea. Prior to this, French and American feasibility studies highlighted the risks of such an oversized project. Other investors didn't want to get involved. However, lacking funds to start construction, he accepted a billion-dollar loan from China in 2014. He conceived the motorway to boost trade in the small Balkan country. The story starts with Montenegro's former Prime Minister and current President, Milo Đukanović. ![]()
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