Outrage in Albania over Kushner-Trump $1.6bn luxury resort – The Latest

阿尔巴尼亚民众对库什纳-特朗普16亿美元豪华度假村项目表示愤怒——最新消息

Today in Focus

2026-06-05

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Thousands have protested in the streets of the Albanian capital, Tirana, this week against a planned luxury resort backed by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Groundwork has begun on the $1.6bn complex in an area long seen as one of the Mediterranean’s most environmentally sensitive, containing 200 species of birds including flamingos and Dalmatian pelicans. After builders began erecting a concrete-based, barbed wire-topped fence around the site, alarm turned to public outrage at the environmental damage and lack of political transparency around the deal. Lucy Hough speaks to US live news editor Chris Michael – watch on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • Pretty hard to imagine a retreat on the scale you're talking about here,

  • you know, $1.6 billion that would not massively hurt the environment.

  • An unbelievable, beautiful 1,400-hectare private island in the middle of the Mediterranean.

  • Obviously, part of what attracted them to it was this sort of natural splendor,

  • but then they have been bulldozing forests, hired a security firm to keep locals out,

  • and that has sparked a huge amount of anger.

  • It's a government directly selling to Kushner.

  • And it really just blurs the line between the role of a sort of private real estate developer and a geopolitical actor.

  • From the Guardian's Today in Focus, this is The Latest with me, Lucy Hough.

  • There have been huge protests in Albania this week as the daughter of the US President, Ivanka Trump,