CERCLE DIPLOMATIQUE - issue 01/2017
CD is a bi-lingual, independent and impartial magazine and is the medium of communication between foreign representatives of international and UN-organisations based in Vienna and the Austrian political classes, business, culture and tourism. CD features up-to-date information about and for the diplomatic corps, international organisations, society, politics, business, tourism, fashion and culture. Furthermore CD introduces the new ambassadors in Austria and informs about designations, awards and top-events. Interviews with leading personalities, country reports from all over the world and the presentation of Austria as a host country complement the wide range oft he magazine.
CD is a bi-lingual, independent and impartial magazine and is the medium of communication between foreign representatives of international and UN-organisations based in Vienna and the Austrian political classes, business, culture and tourism. CD features up-to-date information about and for the diplomatic corps, international organisations, society, politics, business, tourism, fashion and culture. Furthermore CD introduces the new ambassadors in Austria and informs about designations, awards and top-events. Interviews with leading personalities, country reports from all over the world and the presentation of Austria as a host country complement the wide range oft he magazine.
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The Venetian-style rooms<br />
of the luxury hotel Regent<br />
Porto Montenegro boast an<br />
awe-inspiring view of the<br />
beautiful Boka Bay.<br />
Don‘t miss out the Mimoze Festival which<br />
brings together all the beauties of Montenegro<br />
at one spot.<br />
superyacht<br />
Marina<br />
Luxury<br />
residences<br />
Mamula Island with a diameter of<br />
only some 200 meters is another<br />
attraction in Montenegro.<br />
internationaL<br />
shopping and dining<br />
Five-star Regent<br />
Porto Montenegro Hotel<br />
Yacht Club featuring a 64m pool,<br />
sailing and sports facilities<br />
Naval Heritage Museum<br />
A year-round calendar<br />
of international events<br />
“Where the<br />
fashion people go”<br />
- HARPeR’s bAzAAR (uk)<br />
Donji Stoliv – a pleasant<br />
seaside village with a huddle<br />
of stone houses surmounted<br />
by a grand church is only 9.5<br />
km away from Kotor.<br />
+ 382 (0)32 661 059 • portoM ontenegro. c o M<br />
Bridge on river Tara.<br />
National cuisine: Montenegro<br />
still offers many<br />
places which are not yet<br />
crowded by legions of<br />
tourists.<br />
some 3.4 percent in 2<strong>01</strong>7, definitely above European<br />
average. As a matter of fact, according to a recent report<br />
from the EU Commission, Montenegro is regarded<br />
as one of the most advanced EU membership<br />
candidates in the Western Balkans. Since it has started<br />
membership negotiations in 2<strong>01</strong>2, 26 chapters of<br />
negotiations have be opened and two of them already<br />
been provisionally closed, meaning they are basically<br />
agreed on. But the report also states that further<br />
efforts are still required, mainly aiming at the ”depolitisation<br />
of public services“ and to achieve<br />
Western standards in regard to the fight against corruption,<br />
organised crime and freedom of press, the<br />
EU says. Also the growing rates of souvereign debt<br />
and unemployment raises concerns in Brussels.<br />
Both of these two <strong>issue</strong>s have to been seen in connection<br />
to one of Montenegro‘s biggest infrastructure<br />
projects – the construction of a highway from<br />
the Adriatic harbour of Bar to Boljare at the Serbian<br />
border. Its route stretches over some 170 kilometers,<br />
crossing mountainous terrain, with some 50 tunnels<br />
and over 100 bridges. At costs of projected 800 million<br />
Euro it amounts for roughly a fifth of national<br />
GDP and is boosting the debt level which already<br />
resulted into a downgrading by the rating agency<br />
Standard & Poors. On the other hand, a big project<br />
like this should have extremely positive employment<br />
effects and attract additional investments like from<br />
the Chinese Exim Bank which is supposed to credit a<br />
huge part of the highway construction costs.<br />
In the meanwhile, Montenegro is trying not to get<br />
involved into the many unsolved problems obstacling<br />
the development in the Western Balkans. At<br />
least three of its four neighbouring countries – Bosnia<br />
and Herzegowina and Serbia and Kosovo – are<br />
still burdened by internal instability or boiling conflicts<br />
with each other. That is part of the reason,<br />
Montenegro also is seeking Nato membership which<br />
actually has already been granted but not yet ratified.<br />
Says Ambassador Milić: ”For us the Nato membership<br />
is the guarantee for peace and security in the region,<br />
since its umbrella is going from Portugal to Cyprus,<br />
and the only part of the Mediterranean coast<br />
not under it is Montenegro.“<br />
A look at the famous Sveti Stefan island<br />
near Budva in Montenegro – well known<br />
because of its concentration of hotels on<br />
an area of only 1.46 hectars.<br />
PHOTOS: NTO, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, REGENT PORTO MONTENEGRO<br />
“Elegant, aristocratic<br />
and refined”<br />
- TelegRAPH (uk)<br />
FiVe-star<br />
hoteL<br />
regent pooL cLuB<br />
residences<br />
aWard Wining<br />
spa<br />
Among 15 best hotel restaurants<br />
by Conde Nast Traveler<br />
World luxury Hotel Awards<br />
Winner<br />
best Resort Meeting Hotel<br />
A Year-round calendar of<br />
international events<br />
54 Cercle Diplomatique 1/2<strong>01</strong>7<br />
+382 (0) 32 660 660 • regenthoteLs.coM/regent-portoMontenegro
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