Belt and Road: Montenegro takes the high road

In 2018, Montenegro was named as one of the countries most at risk from over-indebtedness to China for the €809 million Bar-Boljare highway, dubbed a ‘road to nowhere’, but in Podgorica, enthusiasm for the project is still running high.

A quick look at Google Maps is enough to show that something big is going on in the mountains of Montenegro. From just north of the capital, Podgorica, to Matesevo in the country’s northeast, the muted greys, browns and greens of the landscape are sliced through with the pale scars of recent construction work.

Driving out of Podgorica on the main road to Serbia, it is not long before the first signs are visible on the ground.

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