Friday, January 16 - And what does the liberating government do? There hasn't been such integration into Europe since the first European community was founded - for coal and steel - which only centenarians remember well...
To be reminded of why our integration is so amazing, it is enough to look at the decisions of the Government and the reports from the Parliament...
What is true is that the uninitiated are a little confused by the fact that integration with Western countries should be accelerated by the northeastern-oriented Andrija Mandić, by whose decision the parliament is silent until February...
No wonder, it is precisely because he thinks one thing, says another, and does another that he became the leader of our European (Serbian) journey...
With the tendency that in his presence, but in his capacity as Prime Minister, the hated flag of the 28th EU member state will be raised in Brussels in 2028...
If we are still as blunt after that, then we will talk about language, race again...
And about the vulnerability of the Serbian people under Serbian rule...
And about the national flag in the singular, even though we have people in the plural...
And about dual citizenship through grandparents and great-grandparents, until we exceed two million...
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Saturday, January 17 - But isn't the government responsible for EU entry? It is, if we knew where our prime minister was, who was last seen two weeks ago in Vienna...
Close integration with the West, no big deal even if he doesn't show up in Davos on Epiphany, anyway, both he and his government are more inclined towards integration with the Middle and Far East...
Mostly with Turks, with a short break due to the introduction of visas which - due to the construction of the collector in Botun - were just as suddenly abolished...
In anticipation of a massive influx of tourists and investors, the visa-free regime still applies to Bahrain...
The construction of the second section of the highway was entrusted to the Chinese, although the current government, while in opposition, cursed the former regime like a dog's collar for the same reason...
What all, despite the alleged integration with Europe, the agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia entail - we don't know yet...
We only know, but not from the agreement but from Jelena's articles in Vijesti, that we have been integrated with Venezuela for a long time...
At the end of the Prime Minister's European trip, it's only good that the dictator from Sudan was removed before our liberators arrived, otherwise we would have concluded some kind of agreement with him...
On the development of democracy, for example...
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Sunday, January 18 - When I was little, I had a terrible problem, I never understood why people from Bjelopavlić called us Brđani when we're from the plains...
Well, now, thanks to the Government, I am free from those worries. If it opens three more quarries in Klikovače, Kriva Ploča and Novo Selo - as it intends - there will be no more hills in my homeland...
There will only be, as environmental activist and councilor Vuk Iković said, the destruction of people's lives, villages, agricultural land and tourism potential...
- Due to the scheduling of the public hearing for the holidays, citizens, local communities, non-governmental organizations, farmers and local entrepreneurs did not have the opportunity to participate in decision-making about the area in which they live, and tomorrow may be too late - said Iković.
Maybe not, because the mayor of Danilovgrad, Aleksandar Grgurović, joined the citizens...
Unlike the Mayor of Podgorica, Saša Mujović, briefly and decisively...
- If the locals' position is that there should be no quarry, that will also be the position of the local government!
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Monday, January 19 - It's Epiphany, and there's chaos on social media...
Is there a state... This can't be tolerated anymore... Swimming for the holy baptism with songs about Pavle Đurišić...
- I don't think they're talking about Pek Dapčević - I read on the profile of my colleague Mladen Zadrima...
And I wouldn't add anything to this topic right now...
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Tuesday, January 20 - The mayor of Podgorica is not saying he doesn't support his fellow citizens, but rather that he is determined to make the residents of the neighboring municipality think twice...
He was warned - of course, not directly - by the relevant ministry to stop the accusations that suspending the construction of a local collector would halt the country's European integration...
The draft EU accession program for this year contains almost five hundred tasks, and none of them stipulate that sewage must be treated and incinerated in Botun...
At today's protest, locals hit back at the mayor with drastically more serious accusations...
That, instead of the announced official negotiations between the two municipalities, discussions with locals were conducted individually, and not with community representatives.
- The Mayor of Podgorica, Saša Mujović, and the Director of the Police Administration, Lazar Šćepanović, in the presence of the Chief of Staff, Vesna Brajović, and the Head of the Central Police Station, Zoran Bašanović, spoke with two citizens of Botun about the selection of subcontractors - the Mayor of Zeta, Mihailo Asanović, informed the locals and journalists.
And he reminded us that it is unacceptable that "the mayor, in the presence of the police, is looking for subcontractors among the residents of Botun on behalf of a Turkish contractor"...
- I believe this is classic corruption - said Asanović and called on the prosecution to investigate it...
I have reason to doubt that they will investigate after three months of silence about the protests against Turks, during which other criminal acts were also committed in the presence of the police...
And I've believed that the construction of a sewage treatment plant reeks of corruption since the beginning of this ecological fairy tale for adults...
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Wednesday, January 21 - Not that I really believe it, but it could be that Ivan Vuković misunderstood the previous column and literally got into the role of the most important Depeche Moderator...
- A million euros for a temple in Budva does not represent a turning point in the DPS's relationship with the Serbian Orthodox Church, but rather a recognition of the residents of Budva who spiritually belong to that church - the unfortunate MP dared to publicly acknowledge what the former(?) leadership of the allegedly (pro)Montenegrin party has not acknowledged for decades...
That DPS has never sincerely supported the Montenegrin Orthodox Church and the fight for the return of its autocephaly...
And that he thinks about the Church, which has been the guardian of the statehood and independence of Montenegro for centuries, the same way that party and its lifelong leader thought about it in 1993.
Their opinion was conveyed to them by their leader, the then President of Serbia, Slobodan Milošević, who in front of TV cameras called Metropolitan Antonije a raspoon, and his inauguration in Cetinje a scandal...
The Montenegrin part of the secular holy trinity - Bulatović and Đukanović - left the elaboration of this opinion to the State Security Service...
This secret service, "without going into religious or political reasons but out of responsibility towards citizens", publicly threatened to publish "knowledge about Mr. Abramović's espionage activities"...
And "documents of deviant sexual activities"...
And various other vomit from the rich Udbaš repertoire, all in the interest of Montenegrins "who, for religious or political reasons, want to kiss his hand"...
Neither the "knowledge" nor the "documents" were ever published, for the simple reason that they never existed...
But, thanks mostly to the now-forgotten historian Zvezdan Folić, some other information about Bishop Antonije, and it was abundantly documented, did exist...
That the State Commission for Religious Affairs, after concluding that his exceptional biography recommended him for metropolitan office, denied support to Antoni Abramović in 1961 solely because of his "stubborn refusal to cooperate with the communist government"...
And that, although posthumously, Serbian Patriarch Pavle also recognized him...
And not only for his already well-known dedication to religion and believers, but also for his previously unknown merits in saving Visoki Dečani from destruction during World War II...
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Thursday, January 22 - I have forgiven, but I do not ask for forgiveness, let those who helped Bishop Antonija - after he came to Montenegro to help her - to die as soon as possible ask for it...
In the nineties, as well as in all the following years and decades, the DPS did not "respect residents who spiritually belong" to the Montenegrin Church...
This million has nothing to do with respect, because these "respected" local believers were part of the Serbian Orthodox Church a year, three or seven years ago. When, for the DPS at the state level, that church was "anti-Montenegrin, Greater Serbian, chauvinistic and Chetnik"...
What it has to do with, well, that is best explained by the aforementioned MP...
- The fall of the Budva government was avoided (...) and the chance to change the structure of the political scene at the state level was preserved - these are the "good reasons" for making the "difficult but correct" decision that he explained last week...
And it's extensive and very complicated, although it could have been drastically shorter and clearer...
And not just about the (for now) opposition DPS, but also about all the ruling parties...
Everything for power, power for nothing.
And period.
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