China Road and Bridge Corporation, the state-owned company which is building the bridge with imported Chinese workers, has not yet finished constructing the first section of the 270-mile highway to the Serbian capital Belgrade. Montenegro is the first country in Europe to find itself in this position with what has been dubbed 'the highway to nowhere.' The six Western Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia - are surrounded by EU member states. Montenegro could be attractive to China for a number of reasons. Abazovic, the deputy prime minister, said in the interview in May that he would consider opening a corruption probe into the previous government's decision to back the Chinese highway.

Source: The Nation July 03, 2021 23:03 UTC