Friday, September 22 - Uh, it's kind of like a spa for me since I switched to economics. At least briefly, at the beginning of the diary, I'm not an eyelid for a long time...
I know, it's strange when I don't understand myself at all... But even my fiercest critics have no idea about journalism, so that doesn't stop them from holding the bank every Friday...
After all, for the first topic you don't need too much knowledge, two basic arithmetic operations are enough - addition and subtraction.
That's why the first good news today:
Ferries on the line Kamenari - Lepetane, in just four and a half months, generated a revenue of four and a half million euros.
When costs are deducted, the state's profit amounts to slightly more than three million.
And what does bad sound like?
Well, it's not just one, there have been thousands since Morsko took over the management of the ferry line.
And it is not news, but another form of journalistic expression. Which, thanks to social networks, are unfortunately also practiced by the semi-literate. And not only in the media, but definitely.
Thus, the right to public speech, which includes criticism of the government, has turned into the right to make sense of every decision of that government, not only the bad ones...
Figures from the public company's balance sheet show that taking over the old and buying new ferries was a good decision.
The balance of the public reckoning with the Government was on that occasion - catastrophic.
The strangers could be forgiven for thinking that wrong words were more important to them than the right decision.
It is unforgivable, however, that the organized action to make sense of that decision was led by a group of once respected analysts, activists and journalists.
And what will they do now?
Nothing, it will be noted today's fact that state ferries in less than half a year brought the same amount of money to the state coffers as private ones in - twenty years.
And keep making fun of them...
Just not anymore with "Hand of Justice" and "August Thirtieth".
But with those who will continue to trust them more than their own eyes...
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Saturday, September 23 - That we don't write well even when the words are right and the decisions are wrong, is shown by a confusing post on the PES website.
Which, neither guilty nor obliged, got the name: "Europe now 2 program for employees".
Despite the large initial P, there is no mention of that program. Not even three and a half months after, based on it, PES received 24 mandates in the Assembly, and its leader a mandate to form the 44th Government.
Which they will find difficult to assemble until, to begin with, they learn to distinguish a program from - a calculator.
The use of which is, by the way, very simple even for technologically ignorant people.
You only need to visit http://evropasad.com, enter the current amount of net earnings, click on "calculate" and - the amount of future earnings will appear.
That higher wages are the right words, there is no need to explain.
Complications, however, arise when visiting a page on http://facebook.com.
It's called Fidelity Consulting.
And he says that when the amount of the average net salary for July of 797 euros is entered into the calculator and he clicks on "calculate", the increased salary amounts to 993 euros.
That's exactly how much the average July gross was.
And how will gross become net?
- Contributions for pension and disability insurance will really be abolished - explained expert consultants of Fidelity.
- Is this cancellation planned - asked Vijesti.
- We will give the answers regarding the Europe Now 2 Program after the formation of the Government - replied PES...
And I am completely delighted with that response to Vijesti.
Really, where do journalists have the right to ask the winners of the elections about the management program for Montenegro...
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Sunday, September 24 - The management of the Board of Directors of Elektroprivreda is a rare example of matching the right words with the right decisions.
A profit of one hundred million euros is the latest proof.
A year earlier, when Milutin Đukanović - in the midst of the energy crisis due to Russian aggression against Ukraine - announced that EPCG would save the citizens of Montenegro more than 500 million euros, I thought it was word of mouth marketing for the politically illiterate.
How can I believe it, when European countries at that time recommended lowering home thermostats to 18 degrees.
And every day they warned the citizens that if they did not save electricity, they would be heated with blankets.
And they raised the price of heating and electricity by almost one hundred percent.
Harmonized doubling of electricity bills was also expected in Montenegro, which has already had to coordinate every decision with the EU for a decade, from choosing a sewage collector to electing the Government.
There was no price increase.
Unfortunately, there were announcements that alarmed the public - that EPCG would become the property of the Serbian state.
She didn't become.
We will find out if and when the governance of the country takes over the hashtag #1.000/750/450.
Whose creator, Milojko Spajić, made a statement in front of Milan Knežević about his intentions to sell EPCG.
Well, that's when I definitely believed that the DF cadres were really good at the economy - unlike politics.
Not only in Elektropivreda.
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Monday, September 25 - If we are being honest, there is no rational reason why there could not be a place at the head of some ministries for front workers.
Especially those in charge of capital investments, energy, transport, regional development or whatever those departments are called...
There was no such reason even during the post-referendum rule of DPS, and especially not after August 30, 2020.
That's why I was really angry because of Gabriel Escobar's last statement:
- The USA was very clear - we want the government to be made up exclusively of parties focused on European integration and dedicated to NATO, which share our position regarding Russia. I think we were very clear about that.
They are, in terms of their wishes.
And what will we do with the wishes of the inhabitants of Montenegro?
Those who, in the parliamentary elections, wanted the ZBCG coalition to be the second strongest in the future government...
- We are convinced that (Jakov Milatović, prim. a.) understood what we conveyed to him - said Eskobar.
We have not yet heard the voice of the President regarding this statement...
The rest of reasonable Montenegro understood it exactly as it was declared - as a threat.
Inappropriate level of the interlocutor.
Rude in diplomatic dialogue.
And inadmissible towards an independent, sovereign and internationally recognized state.
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Tuesday, September 26 - ZBCG's response, true not regarding the situation in the home country but in the neighboring one, was equally inappropriate.
And not because of Escobar and the USA, but because of the truth about the conflict.
But was it true that there was a lot during the two previous days?
It did, and many of them conflicted with the facts as they were reported by observers from afar.
The clergy of the Banjska Monastery were on the spot.
Despite his testimony and - what is even more strange - despite the traditional and never-shaken trust of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Serbian Church, that coalition chose not to trust its priests.
And what is written in the statement of the eyewitness priest?
That they strongly condemn the attack near the village of Banjska, in which one Kosovo policeman was killed and two others were injured.
If it is, it is a serious incident that can have major consequences.
That the Diocese is very worried about the fact that a group of armed, masked people broke through the monastery gate and that these armed, masked people broke into the Monastery.
That those armed masked persons move around the yard, and occasionally shots are heard.
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Wednesday, September 27 - Despite this, ZBCG claims the exact opposite.
That the victims of the terrorist attack are Serbs.
And that terror must stop - Aljbina Kurtija.
And that this "liquidation of Serbs is the result of someone's agreement".
And that the media from Pristina "present the events in the Banjska Monastery as a kind of aggression by the Republic of Serbia".
And there is no media that, not only Serbia, but also its president, Aleksandar Vučić, doubts more argumentatively than - Aleksandar Vučić.
Who for a year, in frequent addresses to the nation, has been announcing "incidents in the north of Kosovo".
- The Serbian people in Kosovo are on the verge of an uprising - Vučić announced today.
Surprisingly, for the first time without specifying when, where and how that "edge of uprising" will be crossed.
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Thursday, September 28 - The spokesmen of the former regime crossed the edge of good taste in the controversy with the prime minister after he announced part of the loot from the operation to free the Airport in Ćilipi from its equipment.
And the wider region around Ćilipo, unfortunately not only in terms of equipment but also in terms of people.
- Good afternoon, Columbus - the former adviser to the former director of Podgorica Airport tagged Dritan Abazović and Vlad.
We knew it haha before you, she didn't say it like that, but it came to him the same way...
And why did they hide what they knew and had in 2004 from the prosecution for the next 16 years, I'm sure some of the special prosecutors for war crimes will ask them...
Because of the factual description of the indictment for covering up war crimes, everything has been clear to me for a long time anyway.
For those who haven't, one of the ancient explanations of Koča Pavlović, journalist, MP and director of the first Montenegrin documentary film about Montenegro's participation in the so-called war for peace.
"Podgorica has a strange approach to the unresolved issue of paying war reparations to Croatia. In this way, the Montenegrin government actually tries to avoid raising the issue of its own responsibility for the war and suffering in the south of Croatia in the early nineties.
There is an effort to pay for avoiding confrontation with the past and avoiding the individualization of the political responsibility of the Montenegrin political elite. Even then, she was the political elite of this country and this nation, which led this country and this nation into a completely unnecessary war.
That's why this looks more like 'subsidizing the Croatian state' in order for it to forget, that is, not to highlight the responsibility of the Montenegrin political elite for what it did then."
PS It is no surprise that reports that could compromise the former regime were hidden from the prosecution for decades. But it is, and it is very shocking, that the United Nations rapporteur Margaret Sattervejt will only report to the Montenegrin public in 2023 about the state of the Montenegrin judiciary in 2006-2020.
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