What Albania teaches us about Kushner's real estate tactics

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, has finalized a deal with Albanian officials to allow construction on Sazan Island in the Adriatic Sea. The $1.6bn project is expected to build luxury tourism real estate on the pristine island and surrounding waters and wetlands. Spurned by the potential environmental impact of the plan and the possibility of corrupt dealings, demonstrators have taken to the streets of Albania's capital city demanding an end to the project. Cate Brown, the Guardian's...

By Cate Brown John Farrell

I saw Kushner’s Albania resort up close — it is an environmental disaster

The damage at Vjosa-Narta is not fake news. Bulldozers are tearing into one of Europe’s most precious wetlands.

Fury over Jared Kushner’s Albania resort project threatens to engulf political elite

As protests in Tirana extend into a second week, they have escalated from opposition to two €5 billion (US$5.7 billion) planned resorts in ecologically sensitive areas linked to Jared Kushner into demands for the entire Albanian political establishment to step aside. Anger erupted on the coast on May 30 when bulldozers moved into one of the sites, spreading to the capital two days later. Every evening at 6pm since then, thousands of people have been gathering in a central square and marching...

By Bloomberg

Thousands of Albanians hold largest protest yet against building of luxury Kushner resort

The resort will be built near a protected wetland home to rare wildlife

By Bryony Gooch

Stars and Swipes: Ivanka's island dream and the Balkan backlash

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s vision for a private Adriatic paradise has unleashed allegations of cronyism, displacement and foreign influence.