Spajić Congratulates Herceg Novi on Municipality Day

Herceg Novi’s rich cultural and historical heritage, its people, traditions, customs and exceptional natural assets make it, as the prime minister noted, a city of enduring beauty, appeal and inspiration, an essential tourist destination and also a place where many people choose to permanently “drop anchor.” The city’s wealth of diversity is the best testament to this. “Sometimes it is enough to listen to its winds and waves, hear footsteps on sunlit stairways and smell the sea and palm trees to understand the uniqueness of this city, as well as our responsibility toward its future,” the congratulatory message stated. Spajić highlighted the shared and demanding tasks ahead: preserving and improving traditional economic activities, renovating and reconstructing neglected buildings in attractive locations, and encouraging new, sustainable and environmentally responsible investments. In this context, he particularly pointed to the comprehensive revitalization of the country’s only true hotel-and-spa complex, the Dr Simo Milošević Institute; creating conditions for a new development perspective for Hotel Plaža; and the further development of the Portonovi complex. These are projects of particular importance to the city and the country, representing potential whose activation for development has been a need and obligation for decades. “This is an imperative for Montenegro’s development and a prerequisite for its long-term prosperity, as well as one of the key principles of the European development policy we are pursuing, with the aim of becoming a European Union member in 2028,” the prime minister concluded, expressing confidence that the announced economic measures would initiate a mechanism for the long-term protection of the living standards of all citizens of Montenegro, bring them closer to those of developed Europe, and encourage a new wave of investment and development in both the blue economy sector and the central and northern regions.