MEPs and Environmentalists Warn Albania’s Kushner-Linked Resort Sets Dangerous Precedent
Campaigners say the 10,000-room project would damage a protected delta and could set a precedent for building in Albania’s coastal wetlands.
- Plans for a luxury resort linked to Jared Kushner on Albania's Adriatic coast risk transforming a protected wetland, with construction potentially lasting 10 to 15 years inside the country's most important coastal ecosystem.
- Joni Vorpsi of conservation group PPNEA warned this "gate-opener project" risks triggering widespread construction across an internationally important ecosystem supporting breeding flamingos, sea turtles, and Mediterranean monk seals.
- Jutta Paulus, a German member of the European Parliament, noted that amendments approved two years ago weakened protections, allowing five-star resorts to build in protected natural areas without paying compensation.
- Daniel Freund, a German MEP, warned that Albania risks jeopardizing its European Union accession bid by failing to uphold the rule of law, stating, "If Albania does not do that, then accession is under threat."
- Local protests have already drawn international attention to the development, with various groups joining to highlight broader governance concerns in Albania beyond the single luxury resort.
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Erin Burnett talks to Riley Mellen of the New York Times who is one of the reporters leading the investigation into a controversial luxury resort linked to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner that would transform protected land.
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MEPs and environmentalists warn Albania’s Kushner-linked resort sets dangerous precedent
A luxury tourism development linked to Donald Trump’s son-in-law sparked the ‘Flamingo revolution’. Opponents fear it will become a precedent for large-scale construction in protected coastal areas.
A construction project by US President Donald Trump's family leads to protests in Albania. The decision between billions of dollars or nature conservation is at the forefront. But the "Flamingo Revolution" has long since been a protest against the Balkan political establishment.
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