PODGORICA, Montenegro — Montenegro Prime Minister Igor Luksic says his supervision won’t desert the euro as the currency, notwithstanding concerns that the eurozone predicament could mistreat the tiny Balkan economy.

Luksic pronounced in an talk Monday that he does not hold the euro will fall or that his nation will humour an mercantile predicament similar to Greece’s, even nonetheless both nations rest heavily upon tourism as well as unfamiliar investment.

Montenegro adopted the euro when it was launched in 2002, circumventing the severe mercantile criteria imposed upon nations already in the confederation though not nonetheless ready to adopt the usual currency.

Luksic projects the 2.5-percent GDP expansion for subsequent year, though he leaves open the probability that the eurozone turmoil could means reduce expansion or even the retrogression in his country, that became eccentric in 2006.

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