Montenegro has earned a fuel surcharge of 3.7 million euros

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Montenegro has earned a fuel surcharge of 3.7 million euros

The state budget of Montenegro has replenished by 3, 7 million euros since April of this year due to fuel collection.
Refueling a gas tank since the spring of 2015 costs the motorists 7 extra cents for each liter.

Thus, the authorities are trying to recoup the construction of a major project designed to solve the transport problem of Montenegro and Serbia - the highway Bar-Bolyara. Most of the investment in construction was made by Exim Bank (China), which issued a loan for a 25-year period, the rest of the expenses Montenegro assumed. The start of the project immediately created serious gaps in the state budget, which provoked the authorities to introduce consumer fuel contributions to compensate for costs.

At the same time, 5 cents are allocated directly to the construction of the route from this sum, the remaining two are registered in the treasury under a vague formulation for the development of sports in the country.

The reaction of the media (as, of course, the population) to this innovation has been and remains sharply negative: conditions have been called extortionate, and the use of personal transport has been classified as privilege, only those citizens whose wealth exceeds the average values ​​can afford.

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