How Montenegro’s ‘road to nowhere’ shines light on China-EU Silk Road deals

July 10, 2020 / By mobanmarket

On the jagged, snow-dappled slopes of Montengro’s Moraca River Canyon thousands of Chinese workers are digging a highway that could eventually stretch across some of the roughest terrain in Europe.

The Bar-Boljare motorway forms part of China’s ambitious Belt and Road project, a global infrastructure programme of roads, railways and ports stretching from east to west that has been dubbed a new ‘silk road’.

If finished, this curious 103-mile section will link a port on the Adriatic coast to neighbouring Serbia in the north. Montenegro’s government has championed the project as transformative for the country of 620,000, aiming to boost tourism and trade as well as improve safety on narrow mountain…

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