Igor Lukšić, Montenegro’s new prime minister and at 34 the youngest head of state in the world, has in one of his first official acts created a dedicated science ministry for the country. The move, however, has sparked some criticism and calls for Montenegro to instead invest more in research—the country currently spends only about 0.26% of its GDP on science.
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Mićo Tatalović is a news editor at Research Professional News. He has previously worked as a science news editor at Nature, New Scientist, and SciDev.Net. In 2018, he completed the Knight Science Journalism Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, US, where he researched the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in science journalism. He is also immediate former chairman of the Association of British Science Writers, and a board member of the European Federation for Science Journalism.
He runs the section Balkan Science Beat.
He runs the section Balkan Science Beat.
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