14 Apr 2021

“This [helping Montenegro] is a rare opportunity for the EU to step up in its backyard and push back against China. But it also wouldn't be the first strategic opportunity that the bloc has squandered in the Balkans. Doing so would be a bad signal to the region and a green light to Beijing.”

www.rferl.org/a/montenegro-china-billi...
Type of Source: News

Vuk Vuksanović

   Researcher, Analyst

Researcher at Belgrade Centre for Security Policy

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China investments in Montenegro

China involvement in infrastructure projects

EU - Montenegro relations

Montenegro asking the EU for help to repay a billion-euro loan to China’s Exim Bank that was taken to build the first section of a highway (first 41 kilometers)