Comments on: Montenegro: Djukanovic is Prime Minister, again, again

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Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:28:22 +0000

[...] Montenegro: Djukanovic is Prime Minister, again, again [...]

By: Paul C

Paul C — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:36:20 +0000

Interesting that your posts on Serbia tend to draw a lot of comments, but posts on Montenegro don’t. By “interesting”, I guess I mean “predictable” – poor Montenegro!

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Global Voices Online » Montenegro: Milo Djukanovic — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:41:46 +0000

[...] Fistful of Euros writes about Milo Djukanovic, prime minister of Montenegro: “By 1991 he was the youngest Prime [...]

By: Paul C

Paul C — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:09:37 +0000

I wouldn’t say that I know more, but there’s a strong sense of deja vu here. Nobody I know has any love for Djukanovic, but everybody agrees that he gets the job done. The problem is that the jobs he gets done tend to be the jobs which will benefit him rather than Montenegro. “L’etat, c’est moi” only works up to a point.

In this case, one imagines that his job will be fixing up the economy and lining up for Europe, which might present him with an interesting conflict of interest, because the reforms which are required won’t necessarily be in his interests….