Albania's Rama vows to push on with Kushner-linked luxury resort despite protests [View all]
Source: msn.com
Story by Edward McAllister • 3h •
TIRANA, June 8 (Reuters) - Albania will plough on with a luxury resort planned by Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner on a remote stretch of Balkan coast despite persistent protests over its environmental impact, Prime Minister Edi Rama told Reuters on Monday.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of the capital Tirana and on the southern coast where the resort has been proposed, calling for the project to be scrapped because of the impact on a protected wetland home to flamingoes, seals and sea turtle nesting sites.
The flamingo has emerged as the movement's symbol: protesters hoist inflatable pink birds and signs saying "Flamingo Revolution".
Rama is unmoved, telling Reuters that the developers will "stun" onlookers with their plans in the coming months and that parts of the resort could be open to the public before the end of the decade.
"I'm telling you, it's going to be a beautiful project and we're going to do it and we're going to be proud to contribute to Europe," Rama said during an interview in his office, a few metres from where nightly demonstrations against the project have taken place.
"I was voted in to make these things happen. I'm not voted to be led by people that have a different idea of how to develop the country."
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Earlier I read that the PM Rama opposed the project for Kushner, then he did a 180 and now has been pushing the project.
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Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama gestures during an interview with Reuters as Albanians protest against a planned luxury resort backed by a company linked to Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic coast, in Tirana, Albania, June 8, 2026. REUTERS/Florion Goga © Thomson Reuters
As bulldozers roll, ‘flamingo revolution’ erupts in Albania against Kushner-Trump luxury resort
Albanians are rebelling against a luxury resort Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump want to build along a stretch of coast beloved for its flamingos and beautiful beaches.
Cain Burdeau / June 5, 2026
https://www.courthousenews.com/as-bulldozers-roll-flamingo-revolution-erupts-in-albania-against-kushner-trump-luxury-resort/
A June 3, 2026, photo shows protesters holding flamingo cut-outs during a protest in Tirana, Albania, against a luxury resort. (Courtesy of Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania via Courthouse News)
(CN) — It’s dubbed the “flamingo revolution” — a surge of anger and protest against longtime Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and his cozy relationship with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump as they seek to turn a pristine part of Albania’s coast known for its flamingos and beautiful beaches into a vast luxury resort.
The $1.4 billion Trump-Kushner resort is slated for construction on a remote island and the nearby delta of the Vjosa River, a shelter for an assortment of wildlife, including about 3,000 flamingos, Dalmatian pelicans, Loggerhead sea turtles and critically endangered Mediterranean monk seals.......
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