Spatial plan, right?
And I was just about to comment on the text entitled “Redefining the Boundaries of Art and Life: Yoko Ono - the Absolute Simplicity of Cognition” which was published last Saturday in Art, and which is backed by the respected Masha Vlaović, former Minister of Culture and Media in the former Government Dritan Abazović (a historical hero who passionately drove and continues to drive the Swabian divisions with equal passion) - and the current assistant director for museum affairs at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro...
OK, if you say: Spatial Plan of Montenegro until 2040 - then I will take this opportunity to refer to the Spatial Plan of Montenegro - with the preliminary statement that it is Spajićeva The Government adopted the Proposal for a Decision on the Adoption of the Spatial Plan of Montenegro at its 84th session, held on June 12 of the current year, and that the Proposal was already discussed at the fifth session of the First Regular Session. Mandic's Parliament in 2025 - on June 25, the Wednesday before last - so that the next day, June 26, the Thursday before last, Mandić's Parliament adopted the aforementioned Proposal - which is to say that it is complete - another demanding obstacle on our pilgrimage towards full membership in the EU has been overcome - and with the adoption of the PP, the conditions have also been created for us to obtain some (considerable) funds from the EU - which has to do with, fanfare please:
"Reform Agenda of Montenegro 2024-2027" - which the Spajić Government adopted at its 50th session, held on September 26 last year.
"The Government has adopted," says the Press Release from the 50th Government Session (gov.me), "Information on the process of preparing the Reform Agenda of Montenegro 2024 - 2027 for the EU Reform and Growth Instrument, and adopted the Reform Agenda of Montenegro 2024 - 2027 for the EU Reform and Growth Instrument."
For the Instrument? Dio mio - as the Italians would say.
So, we have the New Growth Plan for the Western Balkans - the New Growth Plan for the Western Balkans - or the Growth Plan, for short - which the European Commission - established in November 2023. The Growth Plan is based on four pillars, one of which is the creation of that financial instrument, fanfare please: the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans - or the Facility, just for friends - which would refer to financial resources - or a financial line, if you prefer - for financing reforms and (economic) growth in the Western Balkans - so that the WB could finally emerge from a severe (centuries-long) hangover - we are talking, therefore, about the (financial) Funds for Reforms and Growth in the Western Balkans - and certainly not, as Spajić's team says - about the EU Instrument for Reforms and Growth - because those financial resources - the Facility - or rather that financial line for implementing reforms and boosting growth in the WB - are an instrument for implementing the aforementioned Growth Plan - and not the EU Instrument for Reforms and Growth...
Did I tell you that the European Commission is the executive body of the European Union - the EU Government, so to speak - and is one of the three main institutions of the EU - along with the European Parliament and... Do we know, kids? Well, of course: the Council of the European Union...
This must be known, please...
Now, in order for milk and honey to flow at the other end of that so-called financial line - the Facility - so that the West European countries would receive financial resources for reforms and growth (reforms are inseparable from growth - there is no growth without reforms) - they were tasked by the EC to package those Reform Agendas...
Behind our Reform Agenda stands the Government of Montenegro (Milojko Spajić) in very productive cooperation with the Ministry of European Affairs (Ms. Maida Šukurica Gorčević) - and the European Commission put a stop to our RA on October 23rd last year.
I'm not saying that every citizen of this unfortunate and suffering country should thoroughly study the RA - it's enough to skim through that unique document, which has 261 pages - and in case you're not in the mood (even) to skim through the RA - I've tried, just for your sake, to highlight a few highlights...
So it says – page 60, REFORM 1.1.4. IMPROVING ELECTRONIC CADASTRE AND SPATIAL PLANNING: “The reform aims to modernize and improve the cadastral and spatial planning systems in Montenegro. This initiative addresses significant challenges that have long hindered effective land management and development.”
Does this mean that Spajić and Mandić (Becic aside) - back on September 26th of last year, they determined that spatial planning systems - or rather the spatial planning system, it is difficult to distinguish, I am guessing that all of them are one (only) system - ripe/ripe for modernization and improvement - and this at the very moment when Slaven Radunović - Minister of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property - made superhuman efforts to package the Proposal for the Spatial Plan of Montenegro until 2040 - and send it to the Government for determination...
“The adoption,” he continues (p. 61), “of the Spatial Plan of Montenegro by the Parliament is crucial for several reasons, especially given the historical lack of comprehensive planning documents in the past (! - op.a.). For many years, Montenegro has faced challenges arising from the absence of coordinated land use planning, which has led to unsystematic development and environmental degradation. This lack of a unified spatial framework has resulted in various problems, including unregulated construction, inefficient infrastructure development and insufficient protection of natural resources.
OK, if Ms. Šukurica Gorčević had hired me to edit the subject text, I would have said this... Montenegro has been facing for many years - and all chances are that it will continue to face, until one day - challenges arising from a lack of understanding of the role of spatial planning in the system of spatial planning and spatial management - which has resulted, among other things, in poor planning documentation - starting with the Spatial Plan, and onwards - with very few positive outcomes - and, consequently, unplanned interventions in space and environmental degradation...
Something like that...
We would be doing a disservice if we did not acknowledge to the team behind the RA that they admitted to the gentlemen from the EC many things that they would hardly admit to us - the citizens of this godforsaken little state - again, it is not difficult for me to imagine, for example, Slaven Radunović, the minister, speaking out about the historical lack of comprehensive planning documents in the past - especially for today. Milo Đukanović - with an emphasis on the period from the fall of 2017, when the hated Law on Spatial Planning and Construction of Buildings came into force, until July 24th of last year, when he - none other than Slaven Radunović - officially took over as the head of the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property - and when, accordingly, our roses began to bloom...
I've made a few comments for today, but I've missed the point...
The point is in the next, or one of the following, issues...
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