Montenegro In Tourism Push

Podgorica _ Montenegro has called on international investors to help develop high-end tourism along its coastline.

The appeal by the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Environmental Protection calls on investors to help draft a preliminary appraisal for construction projects in the area. Successful companies will then be allowed to manage the new tourist complexes once they are constructed.
Ada Bojana island has been identified as one of several key locations for the development of high-end tourism.
The island, about 520 hectares in size, is owned by Montenegro’s government. It is hoping to secure a long-term lease for 100 hectares of the island, for the development and management of a top-quality tourist resort.
But details released Tuesday show the Government may be willing to negotiate the lease of the whole island, provided that around 350 hectares of the island are retained in its natural state.
The Master Plan for the coastal town of Ulcinj envisions the development of high-quality tourism with accommodation facilities of 2,500 beds on Ada Bojana.
The lease is expected to use architecture, design and engineering that meets the highest international standards but also with a style that is in keeping with its surroundings.
Investors interested in bidding for the lease must have prior experience in the development and management of exclusive tourist complexes, and should submit their proposal by May 5, 2008.

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EU, Montenegro to Start Visa Talks

15 February 2008 Podgorica_ Negotiations on visa liberalisation between Montenegro and the European Union will start on February 21, according to Montenegro’s Minister of the Interior, Jusuf Kalamperovic.

In an interview carried by the Podgorica daily, Republika, on Friday, Kalamperovic said he expected the visa regime with the EU to be fully liberalized by the end of the year.
“The government expects Montenegro to be the first Balkan state that will liberalize its visa regime with the EU, despite the fact that Serbia was the first to start the negotiations. We’ll do our best to achieve this, but it is not all up to Montenegro,” Kalamperovic said.

The talks will begin when the EU Commissioner for Justice, Franco Frattini visits, Podgorica next week.

An agreement on visa facilitation, signed with the EU in September, came into force on January 1.
It has eased visa requirements for a range of travellers, including business executives, academics and students who wish to visit the EU’s Schengen group of countries – a zone within which border controls have been abolished.

Das Kosovo will Unabhängigkeit erklären

Das Kosovo will Unabhängigkeit erklären

Taci: “Wir haben unseren eigenen Zeitplan”

Seit fast neun Jahren wird das Kosovo nun von den Vereinten Nationen verwaltet, ohne dass sich eine einvernehmliche Lösung hat finden lassen. Der Staat, zu dem diese Provinz immer noch gehört, ist in diesen Jahren kleiner geworden. Montenegro ist heute ein unabhängiger Staat. Warum nicht auch wir? - fragen die Kosovaren. Die Karte zeigt grün die Befürworter der Unabhängigkeit in Europa -
rot die Gegner. Das sind vor allem Staaten wie Spanien, Zypern, Griechen, die im eigenen Land mit seperatistischen Bestrebungen zu kämpfen haben.

Gegen die Unabhängigkeit seiner südlichen Provinz ist vor allem Serbien - und zwar quer durch alle Parteien. Auch der gerade wiedergewähle west-orientierte Präsident Boris Tadic macht da keine Ausnahme. Dabei weiss er Russland als starken Bündnispartner an seiner Seite. Die russische Haltung ist dabei leicht zu erklären. Präsident Putin fürchtet den Beispiel-Effekt mit Blick auf seine aufmüpfigen Tschetschenen. So spricht er von negativen Konsequenzen für den Balkan wie für die Welt. Mit Blick auf die Schwierigkeiten, die Bosnien-Herogowina mit seiner “Republika Srpska” hat, ist das durchaus nachzuvollziehen. Beispiele für Unruhe durch Abspaltungstendenzen lassen sich von der georgischen Region Abchasien über das winzige Transnistrien zwischen Russland und Moldawien bis hin zum rumänischen Transsylvanien finden.

Der Konflikt zwische Serben und Albanern im Kosovo begann mit dem Zerfall des Osmanischen Reiches und der darauf folgenen Bildung von Nationalstaaten vor rund hundert Jahren.
Die muslimischen Albaner finden sich heute über mehrere Staaten verstreut wieder. Sie leben nicht nur in Albanien und dem Kosovo - sondern auch in Mazedonien, in Montenegro und im Presevo-Tal im Süden Serbiens. Was soll aus den inzwischen weniger als 200.000 Serben werden, die noch im Kosovo leben? Zieht der nächste Flüchtlingstreck los?

Madonna concert in Montenegro 2008

PODGORICA - Pop superstar Madonna is expected to perform in Montenegro, according to Podgorica daily Vijesti.

The daily writes that she will hold a concert there in late August or early September during her world tour to celebrate her 50th birthday and 25-year career.

The concert is expected to take place on Budva’s Jaz beach, where the Rolling Stones played last September.

Madonna is expected to receive USD 5mn for the concert.

The daily writes that the concert was agreed upon with the pop star’s management “thanks to close ties that the Democratic Party of Socialists Vice-President Svetozar Marović has, whose idea it was to bring today’s most extrovert pop icon to Jaz beach, following last year’s spectacular Rolling Stones concert.”

“Marović convinced Madonna’s managerial team to accept Budva’s offer,” the daily writes.

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Montenegro the new Dubai?

Is Montenegro the new Dubai? It would seem it’s headed that way, with one of Britain’s richest men going up against Emirati investors to develop one of the country’s most beautiful stretch of beach. Roman Abramovich, a Russian billionaire that owns a string of mansions, a fleet of super-yachts, and his own football club, is preparing to bid for the eight-mile long Velika Plaža—or grand beach—near Ulcinj, where he plans to build a massive luxury tourist resort and turn the country into “the new Dubai”.

Heralded for its light, fine sand, the Velika Plaža is currently owned by the government. It is set to be privatised by public tender, however, in a sale that will be announced next month.Abramovich, an investment company owned by the rulers of the United Arab Emirates, and a Hungarian development company—that offered upwards of 2 billion £ to investment in the beach—are all expected to bid.Represenatives of Abramovich have been quietly buying private property along the Velika shore and near Ulcinj, however, ahead of the sale.

“I can unfortunately not reveal the details about my clients’ affairs, except that they are currently involved in acquiring property on the Velika Plaža and around it,” Dragan Prelević, the managing partner of the law firm Prelević, which represents Abramovich, told the British-based Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

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Director of the Center for Strategic Studies Janusz Bugajski says Montenegro could join NATO in the next few years.

Bugajski told Podgorica daily Republika that it seemed “likely” that Croatia, Macedonia and Albania would be invited to join NATO at the alliance’s April summit in Bucharest.
According to the analyst, it will be important for NATO to send a signal from that summit that the doors to the alliance are still open to the remaining European countries, including Montenegro.
Asked whether NATO was interested in establishing a base in Montenegro, he said that the alliance “doesn’t require big bases,” though it could be interested in setting up “new logistical points in south-east Europe, facilities for rotation, training and leave.”
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Montenegro Airlines verrà privatizzata

Il Montenegro lancia la vendita del 30% del capitale azionario della Montenegro Airlines, terza società aerea nazionale, che sarà ricapitalizzata entro la fine dell’anno. Read more

Oil reserves offshore of Ulcinj

With potential sub-Adriatic oil reserves of seven billion barrels,Montenegro could one day become the home of scores of black gold billionaires. Eager to capitalize on this potential fossil fuel bonanza, the Montenegrin Ministry of Economic Development is preparing a working bill that will provide a legal foundation upon which a petroleum industry can be built.

When realized, such a bill will likely attract the major investment needed to explore and then exploit the eserves which are believed to sit just offshore of Ulcinj. Read more

Pour les Ulqinake : que pensez-vous de la privatisation de votre ville de Gezim

Pour les Ulqinake : que pensez-vous de la privatisation de votre ville de Gezim Hajdinaga ?

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Depuis l’indépendance du Monténégro, la ville d’Ulcinj/Ulqin est à vendre. Tous les biens de l’État, y compris les plus grands hôtels de la côte, sont en cours de privatisation. Et plutôt que les acheteurs russes qui se pressent pour investir, la municipalité souhaiterait voir arriver des hommes d’affaires albanais… Read more

Roman Abramovich’s Villa near Ulcinj-Montenegro

Article from Serbian daily “Blic” about Roman Abramovich’s Villa near Ulcinj-Montenegro. I could’t find any pictures of it, but I have a picture of his yacht which can be seen in Montenegro every year Read more

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