Helena Smith
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 7 Jul
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Pleasure, pleasure.
Well, this weekend saw the biggest protest ever, the 35th protest in a row.
They've been going on for over a month.
And basically what started as an environmental outcry over these, Jared Kushner, who of course is married to Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter of,
of the U.S.
president, a Jared Kushner-linked real estate project that would see vast tracts of protected areas, ecologically sensitive areas in the south of Albania being developed.
In one case, a 10,000 villa super luxury resort being built on a stretch of beautiful land.
I saw it with my own eyes just a few days ago.
Opposite Cezanne, there are in fact two projects, one on Cezanne, Albania's only island, and one across the water on this peninsula, both linked to Gerald Kushner, both having drawn the incredible ire and voice of protests and dissidents from Albanians across the country, and indeed across the Albanian diaspora.
We've seen lots and lots of Albanians from the UK,
from America, flying into Albania simply to join these protests.
He is very much supportive of it.
Why?
Because it is the biggest foreign investment that Albania has had to date.
And he sees himself as pioneering, leading this battle to bring foreign direct investment into
into what still remains one of the poorest countries in Europe, on the continent of Europe.
And of course, until 30 years ago, was subject to one of the most brutal forms, if not the most brutal form of communism.
It was a Stalinist regime, very, very closed off from the rest of the world.
So Albanians do take their democracy very seriously.
Sort of almost.
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