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2026-10-08 21:18:50Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The Wall Street Journal has descended on Albania for Jared Kushner's billion-dollar investment, building a report that brings up the numerous conflicts that this project has provoked. In front of 3D renderings of superyachts, villas and luxury resorts, American journalists place residents claiming the properties, protests, interventions in the protected area, the prosecutor's investigation and, in Sazan, a hefty bill that is being passed on to the Albanian state.

From the very beginning, the WSJ's stance is clear. Kushner and Ivanka Trump's plans to develop luxury resorts, the WSJ says, "are causing outrage." The story then travels to Zvërnec and Sazan, examines court documents, and confronts the version of residents and environmentalists with the responses of the Rama government and the Kushner group.

In Zvërnec, the project envisions space for 350 superyachts, 600 homes, 1,400 apartments and an 80,000-square-meter water park. But the WSJ immediately shifts the camera from luxury to the problems with the property.

Local families claim that properties they had benefited from after communism through Law 7501 were transferred without their consent and ended up in a transaction worth over $100 million with a company linked to Kushner. The residents wrote to Kushner himself in 2024 and again in May 2026, but say they received no response.

Even more problematic is the environmental aspect. The area is home to more than 70 endangered species and thousands of flamingos. The WSJ documents a road over the dunes and a bridge over the canal that connects the lagoon to the Adriatic. “This is very bad for nature, very bad,” says one environmentalist, while another describes the sediments and soils that are blocking the water flow.

The report also raises questions about the timing of the interventions. A document cited by the WSJ shows that the construction permit was granted on April 29, but had not yet been signed and required the fulfillment of other conditions, while there were signs of earlier interventions on the ground. Albanian prosecutors, according to the WSJ, have opened an investigation on four charges, including illegal construction.

Rama denies that construction has begun and told the WSJ that it was “limited preliminary work.” Kushner’s group also denied the unauthorized work and stated that the project remains in the planning phase.

The camera then moves to Sazan, where another $1.4 billion resort is being planned. Beyond the images of the luxury villas that are planned, lies the legacy of the former military base: former soldier Artur Meçollari talks about four areas with about 120 tons of unexploded ordnance.

And the WSJ highlights a detail that also changes the economic history of the project: a change to the agreement in 2025 passed the financial burden of cleaning up these munitions from the investor to the Albanian government.

In short, the way the Wall Street Journal conceives the report is that of a problematic issue about what lies behind the marketing images: who owns the land, what has been done in the protected area, when the interventions began, and what costs Albania is assuming. 


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