The Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts (CANU) defends its canonical rights, striving to maintain exclusivity and privileges as if nothing in society and the state has changed, nor should it change, said the general secretary of Matica Montenegrin, Marko Špadijer. The government adopted the proposal of the CANA law, according to which the Dukljan Academy of Sciences and Arts (DANU) is abolished and its members, through a certain procedure, can transfer to CANA. Špadijer said that he respects the effort of the Minister of Science, Sanja Vlahović, to make a shift in scientific policy. , I am not sure that the best way to overcome divisions and unite Montenegrin scientific capacities is by creating an umbrella institution in the form of a state academy. "I am skeptical about the solidity of a new house that is built from the roof and from old and used material," he told the MINA agency. Špadijer pointed out that the state is giving tens of millions of euros for the building and appanage to CANU members in the worst situation.For CANU to explain its attitude towards the pastHe says that, without wanting to point the finger at all CANU academics, that this institution is obliged to explain its relationship to its own past and its intentions for the future. "I don't remember that she looked critically at the period when her members proposed to join the other, when she reduced international cooperation to twinning with the academy from Pale, when under her roof they said that the attack on Dubrovnik was a lie and a deception, when half a millennium celebrated the Montenegrin printing industry as a Serbian jubilee", reminded Špadijer. CANU, he said, is obliged to explain why it did not stand behind the project of the reconstruction of the Montenegrin state, Montenegrin culture and the naming of the Montenegrin language. there are few essential ideas about the scientific progress of Montenegro, and how many personal calculations, aspirations for privileges and sinecures are hidden behind the rhetoric about autonomy and procedures," said Špadijer. He believes that few people are ready to fight for essential changes. "I'm afraid that the united academy will (p)remain more of a theater of vanity and national exclusivity than a roof of Montenegrin science and art," concluded Špadijer
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