In its edition of Wednesday September 10, 2008, the French magazine Point de Vue — which by another way has been voted best celebrity magazine of the year — devotes a double page to Montenegro by publishing an article signed by Philippe Delorme and entitled “More ‘star’ than Monte-Carlo... Montenegro!”

Summarized in its eye-catching title by “Two years after its independence, Montenegro stays well ahead of the leading nations of the new Europe. Before long, the former Balkan principality could even dethrone Monte-Carlo as the rendez-vous of the jet-set,” the article is largely devoted to the touristic future of Montenegro seen through the ambitious development project of the former Tivat naval base, the upcoming Porto Montenegro of Canadian billionaire Peter Munk and his associates, the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, the London banker Lord Jacob Rothschild and his son Nathaniel, the French businessman Bernard Arnault, chief executive of the luxury group LVMH, the Hungarian businessman Sándor Demján, chief executive of TriGránit, and Anthony Munk, own son of the architect of the project, Peter Munk.

As usual when the subject comes on Montenegro, Philippe Delorme does not fail to friendly give a forum to Crown Prince Nicolas Petrovich Njegosh, architect himself in Paris, France, and very concerned with ecology and sustainable development, who comments “the general enthusiasm” around the country’s economic development policy with these words: “It is not reasonable to favor one line of development, especially so fragile, linked to fashions and to the international situation. From way back, for Montenegro, I advocate the path of sustainable development. Because of its small size and the quality of its environment, Montenegro could play the card of renewable energy, ‘green oil’ and biological farming. Such a choice would besides not be contradictory but complementary with tourism.”

Point de Vue, n° 3138, Paris, France, pp. 26-27, September 10, 2008.