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Investors are the most timid animals, and simply when they feel that it is not a suitable field, they simply will not come." Deputy Prime Minister, Vujica Lazović
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union Vujica Lazović, Photo: Boris Pejović
union Vujica Lazović, Photo: Boris Pejović
Disclaimer: The translations are mostly done through AI translator and might not be 100% accurate.
Ažurirano: 05.03.2011. 11:54h

They are sensitive souls. So don't talk, because you can cause them mental pain, don't ask them to obey the law, because they may think that secret deals don't apply and they will have to play by the rules. The way their country would make them play at home. And why they decided to play on the sidelines. In more flexible zones.

Members of the Government are leading in keeping investors, at any cost. Practice shows that friendship, godfatherism, entering into a joint business and flexibility in the interpretation of the law are recipes for mutual satisfaction - both the responsible member of the Government and the Investor. Maybe some more will be installed.

It is our good fortune that Montenegro has political stability - a government carved in stone of continuity with two decades of trade and purchase of strategic investors. After the business with the Italians, since we have successfully hosted numerous winners of Russian privatization, thanks to favorable political developments in Africa, we now have another chance for economic revival. Of course, only if we are nice to investors.

After Thaksin Shinawatra, we could honor Mubarak and Ben Ali, and perhaps Gaddafi, with one economic citizenship each. Maybe that's how we'll get them interested in investing.

Admittedly, Mubarak is risky, tens of millions were frozen for him in Switzerland, but it is estimated that he has billions, so I guess he will manage to save a few hundred million and invest in Montenegro.

On the other hand, they say that after the overthrow of the regime, Tunisians attacked the symbols of corruption of those they call "Family" or "Mafia". The prime minister's son-in-law, a billionaire, was considered the head of that "Mafia". Here is an investor who would do well with us. He would also have someone to do business with.

Admittedly, they would do best with Gaddafi. After four decades in power, he is estimated to have several billion dollars. Therefore, we are keeping our fingers crossed that Libya gets rid of the regime, so that we can provide a strategic investor.

And those who talk about tender procedures, abuse of monopoly position, tax avoidance, corruption, organized crime, money laundering... are actually working against the state. This new Government with old cadres who underwent a metamorphosis overnight, will not exactly call them enemies of the state, as was the fashion until a month ago. But the principle is the same, everything else is shades.

Shut up, you will scare investors!!! You will leave Montenegro without jobs! These were previously abolished by the government thanks to the successful economic policy so far... You who demand that the government adhere to the law like a drunkard are stopping investments, progress, economic expansion.

Some say that it would have been better if Marović and Miraks had panicked in time and disappeared before that concrete monument to breaking the law was created.

Or if the owners of KAP had panicked in time, they would not have given them hundreds of millions from the budget and still pay their loans and the electricity they consume.

If the owners of Željezara had gone offshore in time, the question of how to terminate the contract and leave the factory owing tens of millions of euros to the current owner who, instead of investments, gave Željezara money with interest would not have arisen today.

They say that it would have been better if the tenant of the most elite part of our offer, Sveti Stefan, had panicked in time, so that the hotel in that city had not been closed. Years.

It is also rumored that we pay for the theft of electricity only so that the Italians would stay in Elektroprivreda, and that the power plants on Morača would be packed for them. If it's not enough, we'll also give Tara, and the fun goes on like that.

Well, there are some who would chase away any investor, they don't like anyone. And what is that, but work against the state and citizens. And the country where the investor's company is registered. Brooke. Especially, if it is a European country.

Admittedly, globalization and the system of setting up offshore companies over the Internet have somewhat complicated things. So, for example, our Brits are the owners of Avala and Bianka, and the Russian En + group is coming from the same country, one of a series of off shore companies that changed the ownership of KAP. There are also the Russian-British Dutch from Željezara, the Singaporean Greeks on Sveti Stefan, and Cyprus is usually the lowest common denominator of Montenegrin business owners. Shinawatra was a logical continuation of that mix. So it is difficult to understand what is ours, what is Russian, and what is European... and what is ours, and what is European.

That's why it's best to keep quiet. With a story, you can scare investors, annoy ambassadors, and maybe even leave a minister without work on the side. And bring misery, trials, pressures, threats...

And there are those who still do not give up... They demand respect for the law, regardless of whether it is our Russians, Russian English or English Montenegrins. Because European values ​​rest on respect for laws and regulations.

But, fortunately, there are still brave investors. Safet Kalić, poor mother of Rožaj. Duško Šarić, one of the biggest employers in Pljevlja... Lately, Interpol has been complicating his affairs. Aco Đukanović, Dragan Brković and Vesko Barović barely survived all these difficult years in business. How did Brano Mićunović deal with the risks that come with the gambling business?

I guess immunity develops over the years. To the public, to competition, to criminal prosecution. And brothers and godfathers are here to help.

Those brave pioneers, the flagships of the Montenegrin economy, despite the attacks of the bloodthirsty media and shameful people, dare to invest in our economy. They create jobs. Some even pay part of the taxes to the state. Some take from the state... with fists and hats. But we have to buy strategic investors.

Because in the Government there are capable and professional people who know how to choose strategic partners. And no one needs to tell them that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. It's rotten – for a reason. Every government has the kind of partners it deserves.

Shut up, you will scare investors!!! You will leave Montenegro without jobs!

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