
It is being hailed as the “Flamingo Revolution” – a grass-roots protest against plans by the Trump dynasty to turn a pristine stretch of coastline in Albania into a €1.4bn (£1.2bn) tourism development. Thousands of people took to the streets in Tirana, the Albanian capital, this week to call for the project to be scrapped, saying it will destroy one of the last untouched sections of coastline in the Mediterranean, home to turtles and monk seals.