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Article

7 Nov 2008

Author:
Balkan Insight

Protest over Albania's Club Med resort

Nearly one thousand villagers blocked fresh efforts to start construction on the Club Med resort in southern Albania’s Kakome bay…After three years of…protests from local villagers, Club Med had announced...moving forward with its project…The...company said at the time that it has reached an agreement with local villagers, who claimed ownership of the land, to become a stakeholder in the project…[T]he Agency for the Restitution and Compensation of Property had denied the claims of ownership from the villagers as not valid…The resort will be built by the Albania construction company Riviera...