Ivanka Trump’s Luxury Albanian Adventrue
September 8th, 2026
Courtesy of Slate, commentary on how – like everyone else – America’s first daughter sees one European country as the next Mediterranean tourism destination. But when she tried to get involved, everything exploded. It is difficult to imagine what it is like to have nearly unlimited money. What it might be like to arrive at […]
Read more »Balkan Glitz: Jared Does Albania
June 21st, 2025
Via Air Mail, a report on why the president’s son-in-law pursuing a multi-billion-dollar development deal on an uninhabited—and uninhabitable—former Cold War base: In 1948, a group of Soviet military officers and East German engineers visited Albania’s Sazan (then known as Saseno) Island, a 2.2-square-mile lump of granite strategically positioned between a Soviet Navy base on Albania’s mainland […]
Read more »UAE, Italy and Albania Team up to Build $1bn Undersea Energy Cable
January 17th, 2025
Via The National, a report on a project that will see clean energy produced in Albania exported to Italy across the Adriatic as part of the three-nation agreement: The UAE, Italy and Albania are teaming up to build a subsea interconnector for exporting renewable energy across the Adriatic. As part of the deal, green power produced in Albania […]
Read more »Jared Kushner Wants To Turn A Wild Stretch of Albania Into A Luxury Resort
August 17th, 2024
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on Jared Kushner’s planned Albanian development, funded with Saudi and other Middle Eastern investment: In one of his several trips to Albania over the past few years, Jared Kushner went hiking along a stretch of Mediterranean coastline with pristine sand dunes and cliff-lined beaches. The place, he said […]
Read more »Economy in Focus: Albania
May 7th, 2024
Via Emerging Europe, an article on Albania: Challenges there may be, but Albania’s economy is broadly in a good place. A boom in tourism is driving growth at levels above most of its regional peers. While tourism across most of the world has broadly recovered from the massive impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, in a […]
Read more »Sunny Albania Turns to Solar Power To Fuel Development
October 10th, 2023
Via Energy Daily, a report on Albania’s solar power ambitions: Along southwestern Albania’s coastline, the sun shines bright — warming the 234,828 new solar panels at the Karavasta power station that will be connected to the country’s energy grid in the coming weeks.In less than two years, the French-owned Voltalia company has built the largest […]
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