The total cost of the minimum consumer basket in Montenegro for September 2020 amounted to 646.10 euros. According to the statistical office Monstat, of this amount, spending on food and non-alcoholic beverages amounted to 277.30 euros, while spending on non-food goods and services amounted to 368.80 euros.
According to the latest data, the total cost of the minimum consumer basket in September increased by 0.7 percent compared with August.
Montenegro can expect to receive about five percent of the funds, grants, and concessional loans worth nine billion euros from the European Commission’s (EC) investment program for the Western Balkans, which amounts to around 450–500 million euros, but everything depends on the quality of the proposed projects.
Over the past ten years, since the EU investment system was established, Montenegro has received about 410 million euros out of roughly 7.5 billion in grants and concessional loans distributed to the countries of the region.
The value of projects for which Montenegro has so far applied independently or together with one or more neighboring countries amounts to around 1.7 billion euros.