Whoever has the opportunity to leave Montenegro should do so, because one can always return home. Let him invest in himself and his knowledge!!
This is how Željko Radojević, one of the students of the golden Nikšić class of biologists from the school generation 80/81, which was declared the best in the former great Yugoslavia, advises young people in Montenegro. Željko is the owner of the famous London restaurant "Grove".
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"Western society takes a lot away from a person, but it also provides a lot of opportunities. A large number of people who came to Western European countries succeeded because they brought a good education and fought for survival. When you come here you start from scratch and then you fight for survival. It makes a man work. Montenegrins living in London are not lazy at all. Our system there made Montenegrins into lazy people", says Radojević in an interview with "Vijesti".
He notes that, even if they do not do what they studied, no one will take away knowledge from young people, and they never know where it will take them. Željka is the desire for knowledge in '82. took him to Belgrade, where he graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture.
A native of Nikšić with the famous British lord and businessman Alan Šugar
He worked at PKB in Belgrade and Pancevo, and in 1988, when he enrolled in postgraduate studies, he received a scholarship from the Serbian Academy of Sciences, which at that time was the most prestigious scholarship in the old Yugoslavia. At the beginning of '89. returned to Podgorica.
"I came to work at the Agricultural Institute, but I quickly became disappointed. After the summer, I returned to Belgrade and was an assistant at the Faculty of Agriculture, and since I did not speak English well, I went to England to study the language. The plan was to stay for 2-3 months, but I stayed until the end of '90. year", Željko remembers.
Radojević married his Brazilian wife in Nikšić in 1991, and when the turmoil began and when it was a question of the day when the borders would be closed, he looked for happiness in the West
The restaurant is close to central London, and its main guests are business people. In his restaurant, he also presented the British Prime Minister David Cameron with a Montenegrin "first wreath" three months before he was elected to lead Great Britain, in May 2010. Cameron came with his wife and friends, and Željko, in order to introduce him to his homeland , offered "the first":
"After the first one, which he and his friend drank at the ex, he said it was strong, but I told him he had to drink another one, in Montenegrin style, and that England needed a strong prime minister. He also drank in the second class, after that he came again."
"The material scars that were left to our country after the war will heal, but unfortunately, sociological and social, drug addiction, crime and other things have entered every pore of our society"
Now, after 23 years in England, he intends to return to Montenegro, which he is a little afraid of:
"It is no longer the country in which I grew up. People have changed a lot, social values have become perverted. I can barely see virtue and heroism, people cheat, steal... It has come to the point that, like when you have a big storm and the sewage it spills out and then the water recedes, you know what remains. The material scars that were left to our country after the war will heal, but unfortunately sociological and social, drug addiction, crime and other things that come with problems in that transitional period from communism to a democratic system, entered are in every pore of our society".
The image of Montenegro in the West is bad after the BBC
Radojević is afraid of returning to Montenegro because, unlike in the orderly West where human freedoms are known, these rights are usurped here.
"We do not have a good rating in the West, which thinks that bribery and corruption rule the country"
He claims that the recent program on the BBC about Montenegro (corruption story - First Bank) produced a very bad image of our country:
"I was very disappointed when I saw that newspaper, which is the most watched in England. I thought that after independence there would be political maturation, that they would drop the ball a little, it all comes down to some friction between the parties. Unfortunately, we do not have a good rating in the West, which thinks that bribery and corruption rule the country".
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