Montenegro’s Tofu Highway Scandal — A $1 Billion Road to Nowhere

"The Bar–Boljare Highway was sold as Montenegro’s golden ticket — a 170-kilometer superhighway from the port of Bar straight to the Serbian border at Boljare. A sparkling artery meant to fuse the Adriatic with the Balkans. Politicians called it the crown jewel of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a $3 billion miracle that would unlock jobs, tourism, and Europe itself.
But a decade later, that miracle looks more like a warning. A monument to tofu-dreg construction, a mountain of debt, and a national dream slowly dissolving.
This highway didn’t begin as a scandal. It began as hope — a clean, powerful idea to stitch Montenegro from north to south and deliver its people onto Europe’s fast lane. The plan mapped a modern motorway from the Adriatic port of Bar up to Boljare on the Serbian frontier, forming Montenegro’s missing link along the Belgrade–Bar route.
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