16 January 2019 - Prime Minister of Montenegro Duško Marković and the President of the Municipality of Gusinje Anela Čekić opened a new municipal administrative centre with more than 1,000 square metres, worth more than 1.2 million EUR.
"This is truly a nice and functional facility for the accommodation and operation of the local administration, but also better services to the citizens of the Municipality of Gusinje. At the same time, today we talked about everything that we did in 2018, both from the budget of the local government and the capital budget. We can all agree that we completed a lot of work, but it is also of great importance to continue to improve communal, social and other aspects of infrastructure in the municipality of Gusinje," said the Prime Minister.
He added that the Government increased the capital budget for the Municipality of Gusinje to the amount of 1.3 million EUR this year, that the revenues of the Municipality of Gusinje were significantly increased on several grounds and that the Government plans to implement the Municipality Development Plan in the close future.
"Today I leave Gusinje extremely encouraged with the results I have seen. The actual results and the motivation of the representatives of the local administration of Gusinje are definitely more significant when I visit the city and determine the outcome myself. I can only conclude that it is imperative to talk to people in the field in person," said the Prime Minister.
Duško Marković is personally supervising the program of "economic citizenship". When asked to comment on the implementation of the program of acquiring the citizenship of Montenegro with investment, the Prime Minister said that this was a program aimed at securing private capital for the development and valorisation of resources and strengthening the country’s economy.
"You can see that the state allocates a significant part of the budget for development, but that is not enough and it's not right that only the state affects development with its money. We should create the possibilities of greater development with private capital, and for that reason, we launched the program of economic citizenship for investment purposes. Therefore, anyone who is, according to the rules we have defined, ready to invest in a project approved by the Government in the country, will receive the citizenship. With the new investments, projects will be developed; new jobs will open, wages will increase, we will reduce unemployment and of course all citizens will live better. That is the goal of this program. I am personally interested in the program being implemented in such a way and with that effect. If at some point we estimate that no such effect is induced, we will suspend the program. The goal is development, new jobs and higher quality of life of citizens. Anyone who is interested, even our people in the diaspora who do not have our citizenship, if they are ready to invest in a project in the country, will have the same opportunity like everyone else, "said Prime Minister Duško Marković.
