US EditionSerbia Approves Trump Tower on NATO-Bombed Military Site
Serbian parliament fast-tracked a $500 million luxury redevelopment of a bombed military site led by Kushner's firm despite protests and ongoing forgery investigations.
- On November 4, Serbia's parliament approved Lex Specialis with a 130-40 vote to fast-track the General Staff site redevelopment, declaring it a national priority and expediting state procedures.
- The Serbian government earlier stripped the buildings of protected status and signed a 99-year lease with Affinity Global Development, while prosecutors arrested a culture official for forged documents and Goran Vasic admitted fabricating an expert opinion.
- The $500-million project targets the General Staff site, former Yugoslav Army headquarters, designed by Nikola Dobrovic, with plans for a 175-room hotel and retail spaces.
- Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the Serbian parliament, accusing the government of corruption, while opposition parliamentary deputy Biljana Dordevic warned works could start next week and citizens would try to stop demolitions.
- Amid those debates, President Aleksandar Vucic argues the project will boost Belgrade's regional status and ties with the U.S., while heritage groups and the European Commission warn of rule-of-law erosion.
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Serbia is getting a Trump hotel – in a sensitive location. A special law gives the green light to the controversial real estate project being run by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The opposition sharply criticized the initiative.
The Serbian parliament has passed a law that allows the demolition of the Yugoslav army headquarters in Belgrade, which was bombed by NATO in 1999. According to an article in the New York Times, Donald Trump's family may build a luxury hotel worth $500 million on the site. The investment has been planned for a long time, but the process has stalled after government officials supporting the project were accused of fraud. The project may be given …
The former military headquarters complex has been stripped of its cultural protection status.
It has approved by a special law the transformation of the former seat of the Yugoslavian State into hotels and apartments
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