Jared Kushner's Albania resort sparks protests, EU concerns

Key points

• Trump's son-in-law is linked to a megaproject on Albania's protected coast that has triggered protests and EU scrutiny over risks to flamingos and endangered habitats.
• Bulldozers, barbed-wire fences and security guards dragging protesters across the sand are not the images Albania hoped would dominate headlines just days after it received positive signals from Brussels over progress in its EU accession talks.
• Yet that is precisely what happened in the the Narta Lagoon area, a protected landscape on the country's southern coast.
• At the center of the dispute is the proposed Zvernec Peninsula development, a tourism project linked to Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of US President Donald Trump.
• What started as a fight over construction in a protected area has grown into a wider debate about development, environmental protection and Albania's future in Europe.