Montenegro: China-backed highway "from nowhere to nowhere" strains country's finances; New government questions project's cost-effectiveness
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보고된 날짜: 2022년 5월 26일
위치: 몬테네그로
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China Road and Bridge Corporation - Client , Bemax - Client , Cijevna Komerc - Client , Skladgradnja d.o.o. - Client , China Exim - Sponsor프로젝트
Bar-Boljare highway - Site영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Public: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 몬테네그로 , 도로 건설 , Gender not reported ) , Ecosystem: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 몬테네그로 , 도로 건설 , Gender not reported )토픽들
수질 오염 , 주목할 만한 지역이나 보호 구역에 미치는 영향 , 깨끗하고, 건강하고, 지속가능한 환경 , 토지권 , 사회 보장 , 작업 및 작업 환경 , 정보 접근성 , 부패 , 공모결과
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"A Pricey Drive Down Montenegro’s Highway ‘From Nowhere to Nowhere", 16 August 2021
[...] Montenegro’s new prime minister, Zdravko Krivokapic, who took over late last year from the government that signed the road and loan contracts with China in 2014, described the highway as a “megalomaniac project” that “goes from nowhere to nowhere” and badly strained his country’s finances. [...]
[...] The Montenegro highway fused China’s oversize ambitions with those of Milo Djukanovic, the Balkan nation’s prime minister when work on the road started. But, with Mr. Djukanovic’s party no longer in charge for the first time in 30 years after elections last year, the highway has become a lightning rod for accusations of waste, graft and bloated ambitions that are out of sync with economic reality.
“I have no proof yet, but all this indicates corruption,” Mr. Krivokapic, the new prime minister, said in an interview in Podgorica, the Montenegrin capital. “From the economic side, this highway is probably not cost-effective.” [...]
Dritan Abazovic, the deputy prime minister responsible for security, said in an interview that he “has nothing against China,” which “just wants to be present in the region.” But he questioned the wisdom of taking out a huge loan from China in order to hire a Chinese company that imports Chinese workers and then “takes all the money back to China” — a typical practice for Chinese infrastructure companies working abroad. [...]
An earlier feasibility study, in 2007, by Louis Berger, an engineering company in Paris, warned that traffic along the proposed highway would not be “high enough to justify” investment “from a purely financial basis.” But it added that “social, political and economic” factors “should be considered before making a decision on whether to continue with the proposed program.” [...]