Montenegro’s billion-dollar road to nowhere • FRANCE 24 English
In #Montenegro, the #construction of a #motorway to open up the Balkan nation - a project launched in 2014 - is now more than two years behind schedule. With its high environmental and financial costs (more than $1 billion), this pharaonic project has dangerously increased the debt of the country of 600,000 inhabitants. FRANCE 24 investigates. The work is being financed by a Chinese bank and largely carried out by a Chinese state-owned company and a local firm close to the previous government, which signed the deal. But if Montenegro defaults on its loan, the contract stipulates that the country must relinquish sovereignty over certain parts of its territory. This burden on the country’s new government has aggravated the strong suspicions of corruption around the building site.
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looks like the road is going through nice vacation, fishing areas and has quite exciting views from what is shown
Only 1billion? They could have asked Amazon. 😒
Factual title as road does go to nowhere .......... when 2nd/3rd phase finished will link Serbia border to Adriatic Sea bringing significant tourist, shipping and industry to Montenegro.
@vladnickul
2 ай бұрын
:)))))))))))))))))))))))
There is lots to weigh and much to be concerned / critical about in this project, but I question France 24's headline, "Road to Nowhere." It is a road to the north of the country which would provide greater road safety, economic links and easier border crossings into Serbia. I do not see why France 24 would use this headline. Surely, the corruption concerns and Chinese mismangement of the project are more important.
@stefanomarchesani8804
2 жыл бұрын
Because Montenegro is moving back to Serbia ia and Russia. Easy. If you don't behave properly you are going to be punished. Usually they start to undermine the local government with these kind of reportages which blackhadow its reputation. Than NGOs start to prepare the ground for the last of a long series of organge revolutions backed up by tbe US. It's the same old story.
@kuqezi5733
2 жыл бұрын
I think they used this tittle because the road isn't finished yet and keep getting delayed
@Magyar9Andras
2 жыл бұрын
@@kuqezi5733 Correct, as they said "only 42km stretch is finished"
@KnowDude
8 ай бұрын
yeah the balkan countries urgently need better roads, highways and infrastructure in general. the roads in Serbia south of Nis were also in terrible condition, I hope the Chinese fixed them in the last years.
Next time make sure you take the camera to south Asia (PAK)😂😂
Montenegro opens Chinese-built highway section on Statehood Day, July 2022. Congrats Montenegro!
Was Marshall Plan a US debt trap?
@maydate86
2 жыл бұрын
It was free no need to pay back
Im pretty sure it goes from Kolašin to Podgorica so yeah it goes somewhere
So Montenegro payed China to build a road to nowhere. Why again is China to blame for this?
beautiful country
Montenegro means "black mountain".
@IvarDaigon
2 жыл бұрын
they may need to change the name to Montechino soon.
They should ask a French company to build the road.They have experience from the monumental infrastructure projects they have fulfilled in Maroko,Algeria,Vietnam,Madagaskar,Senegal.Modern ,low cost and still in good condition..Sorry I forgot Rwanda.
@archangel7052
Жыл бұрын
They asked EU but no one was willing to lend them the money...except China.
@Bk6346
Жыл бұрын
Germany and Turkey construction companies showed interest in building the highway but the contract was awarded to China.
The Chinese and imf and rolfchild world Bank are the same
any updates? looks like you should reevaluate your propaganda lmao
Bemax of course is corrupt. But in a country so tiny in population there is no second construction company. Even from a corruption perspective it's better to have the company in the state than a decent foreign contractor since Montenegro isn't part of a tight economic union.
Western proboganda unlimited. If this highway was built in France, they would have dubbed it as an engineering marvel and a road to prosperity.
1:02 if the construction was done by US and EU then there would be no debt and no enviornmental destruction. Infact you guys would pay Montenegro for the privilage to build a road and you would plant a lot more trees. Also just becouse it doesnt comnect Monenegro to the EU doesnt mean its a road to nowhere
Sooo the issue is not war, xenofobia or sth like that in the balcans but that the chinese are lending money for infraestructure...
@noodleppoodle
2 жыл бұрын
How about the problem being cutting corners in building infrastructure-from studies on whether particular infrastructure pieces are feasible to building without respect to nature, and dumping trash in random places that don’t belong to them?
@chinemol
2 жыл бұрын
Sure, but that has happened in many other places. I'm not denying the issues with this proyect, just pointing out it's not the issue at stake here
@bigbarry8343
5 ай бұрын
So, you think that china has less xenofobia that Europe?
Construction damages the environment..... Should we go back to the stone age? Do you have construction in France?
@mg4361
2 жыл бұрын
In France the environmental recomendations are followed and waste isn't illegaly dumped on other people's property.
...UNITED STATES CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY DIRECTOR LAMONTE M. WARD
Are the roads build in a different way in other countries? Does it not affect farmers in usa or france?
@mg4361
2 жыл бұрын
They are built differently, yes. Environmental studies have to be performed and guidelines followed durig the construction. Additionally, construction companies cannot simply dump waste wherever they want on other people's property.
@noodleppoodle
2 жыл бұрын
Are you kidding me? Of course there are different ways to build roads, ways that that don’t damage rivers, and you don’t dump your trash in random places.
@uzziake
Жыл бұрын
@@mg4361 well in Montenegro that's how they're built
Who in Montenegro is rich?
@yellowwasprakija2869
2 жыл бұрын
Milo Djukanovic and Nikola Pekovic
@Bk6346
Жыл бұрын
Gdp per capita is about $10,000. Not the poorest country in Europe but the bottom third.
@KnowDude
8 ай бұрын
the kotor drug mafia maybe
The Chinese learning from the west France 🇫🇷 imf and the world Bank
@henryeghaghara9385
2 жыл бұрын
Without imf ghana would be dead
Will be seen
Kuku do boga neko je nekoga navukao!
It was never about the discussion of benefits for the people of Montenegro, cost of buiding it now against future, the trade-off etc. It is just about the naratives; if French financed and built it, the news would sound positive. Unfortunately it was the Chinese who financed and built it, the naratives has to be negative. This is how it is with FRANCE 24 ENGLISH.
Only you are engaged in propaganda, but when this highway is finished it will be spectacular, one of the most beautiful landscapes it passes through and unites brotherly peoples.
The Chinese export Tofu dreg to Europe
china you said...⚡😵
Another captured state!
Made in China
Kosovo is Serbia
@AJWRAJWR
2 жыл бұрын
Serbia is Kosovo
Ignorant and corrupt, not a great combination.
China is doing this everywhere - especially in Africa It has the same imperialistic ambitions as the EU
@ems7623
2 жыл бұрын
The idea that the EU is imperialistic is ridiculous. They can barely hold together their own union. They have no standing army. There are no trans-European organizations which could function as the colonizing arms of an Empire. Please stop speaking like an idiot.
@aj2734
2 жыл бұрын
The eu is imperialist within their own continent
@vickoslavkovic2593
Жыл бұрын
Same? Yeah, sure but only for ignorants.😏