Thousands Join Latest Protest over Kushner-Linked Resort Development in Albania
Protesters say the $1.98 billion project threatens protected wetlands and wildlife, while Albania’s anti-corruption agency has opened a related investigation.
- Albania's anti-corruption agency has opened an investigation into the $1.98 billion luxury resort project led by Miami-based firm Affinity, linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
- Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama granted preliminary approval for developments in the Vjosa-Narta area and on Sazan island in 2024, benefiting from his relationship with Kushner built during the first Trump administration.
- Mass protests dubbed the 'flamingo revolution' have erupted in Tirana as conservation group PPNEA warns of irreversible ecological damage, noting the site hosts more than 200 migratory bird species and nesting sea turtles.
- Prime Minister Rama dismissed the demonstrations, telling Politico "Trump haters" had amplified the protests, while writer Lindita Komani argued Albania "is not up for sale."
- Developers maintain their focus is "responsible stewardship and environmental enhancement," though this investigation follows a 2024 case in Serbia where prosecutors charged officials over a similar luxury complex linked to Kushner.
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Thousands of people marched to Albanian capital Tirana Saturday evening, for the sixth consecutive day, against a plan to build a luxury resort by a company affiliated to the American president Donald Trump's family on a reservation...
Behind the defense of a protected area and the protest against a mega-project carried by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, protesters have been denouncing, since 1 June in Tirana, a corruption-ridden system that serves the interests of a small oligarchy.
US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner want to build a luxury resort in Albania for tens of billions of crowns. The project, which is to be built on a stretch of coast in the protected landscape area around the Narta Lagoon and on the uninhabited island of Sazan, has been approved by the local government, which has described it as strategic. However, Trump is talking about a private island, which has outraged A…
Albanians step up protests over Trump-linked development
Thousands of people rallied Saturday in the Albanian capital and hundreds in a protected nature reserve on the country's coast to protest plans for a luxury beach resort by a company linked to the Trump family. Answering a call from environmental organisations, activists from across the country and local residents flocked at midday to the Vjosa-Narta lagoon, around 150 kilometres (90 miles) southwest of the capital Tirana. It was the latest in a…
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