What began as anger over access to beaches and the protection of environment turned into the question of who should decide, and how, about the future of #Albania 🇦🇱 #day14 🦩
🇦🇺 Melbourne joins the flamingo revolution — it’s going global! 🌍
🇦🇱 The Albanian community of Melbourne may be far from Albania, but Albania is always close to their hearts ❤️🖤
We just arrived in Tirana and were met by a remarkable sight from the hotel window: thousands of Albanians gathered outside Prime Minister Edi Rama’s office for the tenth consecutive evening; waving flags, holding banners, and making their deafening voices impossible to ignore.
Congratulations Shkodra, congratulations Albania! 🇦🇱💙
Lake Shkodra has been designated a UNESCO Transboundary Biosphere Reserve, under the “Man and the Biosphere” Programme.
We are proud to have supported this achievement through an EU-funded project, which prepared the nomination file by highlighting the natural wealth, biodiversity, traditions, culture, and heritage of the lake’s entire catchment area. 1/2
In tiny Albania, over a hundred thousand people have been in the streets against an environmentally disastrous luxury resort planned by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his Qatari billionaire partners.
This is what global oligarchy looks like — and the people are saying NO.
🇪🇺🇦🇱 The EU has warned Albania that a luxury resort project linked to Jared Kushner could jeopardise the country’s path to EU membership.
Brussels says the project, planned in a protected area, may breach EU environmental rules and has urged Albania to rethink recent changes to laws on protected areas and strategic investments.
Construction has been halted and an environmental assessment is now underway.
Follow: @europa