
Edi Rama Must Go
A luxury resort backed by Jared Kushner has prompted massive protests in Albania, now ongoing for over a month. The project has become a lightning rod for opposition to Prime Minister Edi Rama’s cronyish development model.
Kristina Millona is an investigative journalist and scholar. She is a PhD candidate at Central European University Vienna, researching the racialization of Albanian male asylum seekers in the UK.

A luxury resort backed by Jared Kushner has prompted massive protests in Albania, now ongoing for over a month. The project has become a lightning rod for opposition to Prime Minister Edi Rama’s cronyish development model.

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