It is the seventh morning since the one-day and simultaneous visit of Milorad Dodik and Oliver Varhelji, and I can't figure out whose good intentions humiliated Montenegro more...
A difficult choice, if I had two or three decades less, I would give priority to the danger of the great Serbia, which in recent times is mentioned under the pseudonym Serbian world.
Unfortunately, I don't have it, little devil 66. and experience tells me that the right of priority goes to the one whose messages are less eyeless, but in the long run no less harmful.
Because I spent 33 years - which is exactly half my life - watching how our country seems to want to join the European society, and the Europeans seem to want to accept it into their society.
When, in 1990, the Liberal Alliance incorporated the symbols of the then European Community into its logo and into its program of European values, it was a desire without reason.
We naively believed throughout the whole decade that the wishes of the most powerful European leaders were without them...
And then the so-called the war for peace - after the Dayton break - continued in Kosovo, and the so-called warriors for peace became guarantors of stability in the Balkans.
In that 1999, we attended not classes or days but months of obvious lessons in how history tends to repeat itself as a tragedy for the first time.
We don't watch the tendency for it to repeat itself a second time as a farce, but we live it...
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I found my own testimony about the fact that, despite the obviousness, that teaching did not teach us anything from the end of 1999, when the warriors turned into peacemakers, and the European Community into the European Union.
- Montenegro is becoming more and more democratized every day in every respect. This is evidenced by numerous statements of foreign train dispatchers who stay on Montenegrin platforms for as long as two or three hours.
The fools are, obviously, a very massive nation, convinced that Laurent Fabijis and Madeleine Albright really believe that Montenegro has become an example not only in the region but also beyond.
It doesn't matter that Milo Đukanović is slow to finish his homework, the world shows extraordinary patience for our decline.
Because that world doesn't live in Montenegro, we do - I quoted myself from a single guest appearance in Grafiti, because unfortunately I didn't consider my columns from Liberal to be worth saving.
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If they deserved to be repeated, I would not even think about the equally extensive but drastically less sincere statements of Oliver Varhelji, if the height of his office was not directly proportional to the weight of their consequences.
- In these few months, they have achieved a lot. And that was very well received not only in Brussels, but also in the capitals of the European Union members - European Commissioner for Enlargement Milojko Spajić assessed the performance of the Government.
And what is a lot?
- Judiciary, as far as appointments are concerned, becomes fully functional. I'd say the hardest part is already done - that's how Varhelji saw it last week.
Just four months ago, the European Commission had a drastically different view:
- No progress has been made in judicial reform, the most challenging area of the rule of law so far;
- The judicial system continued to face a deep institutional crisis;
- Weak leadership and management, lack of strategic vision and poor planning affect the state's ability to administer justice;
- Judiciary, in addition to other weaknesses, is still affected by the lack of responsibility.
Since November, nothing much has changed, all four key objections of the EC still stand:
The judicial reform has not even started, that part of the system is still in a deep crisis, and the state is equally (in)capable of administering justice.
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What happened to the responsibility in the courts and prosecutor's offices?
Nothing, with the exception of Saša Čađenović, everyone is on the list and feels good in the same or even higher positions.
And what happened to corrupt judges and prosecutors in these four months of great success?
Or with bought verdicts and indictments that were worded in such a way that they would be overturned?
Also nothing.
Has any critic of the former regime been rehabilitated, above all a journalist or civil activist?
Has anyone been prosecuted for setting up affairs for DPS opponents?
Was any prosecutor responsible for a superficial or unacceptably long investigation?
Or some judge because of unfair verdicts, acceptance of false witnesses and deliberate postponement of hearings until statute of limitations?
Of course it is not.
And of course, the four key objections of the European Commission, and especially these four additional ones that have been raised by the domestic public for years, cannot be ironed out.
Especially not by electing one judge of the Constitutional Court, namely the seventh.
And one state prosecutor, even if he was supreme.
And three members of the judicial council from the ranks of distinguished lawyers, as long as they are the most distinguished...
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Of course, the European Commissioner for Enlargement and the leaders of all the countries of the European Union are well aware of all this, but the fear of the East is changing the West's rhetoric.
Just as they know that Prime Minister Milojko Spajić is not a political and social reformer, but he only cares about European assets if their value can be expressed in currency. Traditional or crypto, whatever...
It is important that it does not fall below 750 million in either the ministerial or the prime ministerial mandate. Euros or dollars, how when...
And what else shows that he is not a reformer? Well, a little according to his public addresses in which the EU was at the end until recently, so I'm not copying from a failed reformer from the neighborhood who had the ninth hole in his pipe...
A little more knowledge was brought to me by renewing the material from the above-mentioned EC report.
As if it was not written last year but yesterday:
- The government continued to fill key positions in acting capacity.
- Governance transparency is still a problem, the Government often adopts decisions without formally holding sessions.
- There is no progress in employment based on merit, competence and independence of civil servants.
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All this, and many more unfinished or even unfinished changes, the Government and the EU are trying to camouflage by filling a fraction of the vacant positions in the judiciary...
How lucky that the problem was only those two or three appointments. With which the Government, by the way, not only practically had nothing to do, but in theory - according to the Constitution - it should not have.
With related trade, i.e. it did have something to do with the bartering of party and ministerial chairs, which is not strange at all.
The only thing surprising is that Mr. Varhelji is completely delighted with the above-mentioned trade:
- With these new political coalitions and constructions, it is quite possible to quickly deliver results - that's how he saw it.
Which is very good for (pro) Serbian parties.
And for me, not only for political reasons but also for personal reasons. It's been the fourth year since I trained myself explaining how (i) there must be a place for them in the Government.
But also - more than very - bad because of the underestimation of Montenegro. Which the European commissioners treat like a child from a correctional facility waiting to be accepted into a foster family.
That's why they probably reckon that everyone here has forgotten the humiliating warnings that the government with NSD and DNP, neither together nor separately, will not be a "desirable partner" for the governments in the West.
In December 2020, those warnings were so harsh that the only thing missing was the threat of NATO troops arriving at the land borders...
They haven't asked about crossing the sea for a long time...
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PES also crossed all borders, violating the coalition agreement, but the Democrats heroically endured that humiliation.
- The government supports the proposal of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Danilo Šaranović, to dismiss the director of the Police Directorate - Prime Minister Milojko Spajić deigned to say two months after submitting that proposal.
And he announced two formal conclusions that are mutually exclusive - that the Government supported the dismissal of the Director of the Police, but that Zoran Brđanin will not be dismissed until the European Commission declares.
- We are consulting with the EC and until Monday we are waiting for an optimal way to get out of this situation - he tried to convey in European terms what was once called in Montenegrin - leaving for one's own opinion.
And then on Sunday, late at night, he dismissed Brđanin from his directorship.
And immediately after that, he left him for another seven days in the same position...
To make the miracle truly unprecedented, he promised to elect the acting director through a public competition, even though this is against the law.
At the end, he also boasted that everything they do - "they do it transparently and without the desire to politicize public functions".
How transparent Government sessions can be after the ban on TV broadcasts is clear to everyone who has had the opportunity to follow live every word and every vote of the ministers in Dritan Abazović's cabinet for a year and a half.
And how politicization can be avoided during political appointments to public positions, only Milojko Spajić can clarify that.
Just so that it is not an attack on common sense, like the answer to the question of why a minister who harmed PES so much that he had to be kicked out remains in the government.
- Because getting IBAR depends on him - that's exactly what the Prime Minister said.
Publicly trivializing everything that not only all the ministers of justice, but also the ministers of foreign affairs and European integration, as well as hundreds of their associates, worked on fulfilling the temporary standards for the previous twelve years.
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And what about the President, "I have no comment, anyone can enter and exit"?
Well, I literally can't find a decent word for it.
Political, because we are talking about the President who - both as an institution and as a person - was supported by 221.592 adult citizens of Montenegro, more than ever since the head of state has been directly elected.
On a personal level, because there isn't much to say about such a relationship with his former closest colleague in the Government, and then the co-founder and deputy president of the party!
Despite the scarcity, I still found two: the defeat of humanity!
So much from me for today...
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