Planned Belgrade Trump Tower Slammed by Europe Heritage Watchdog

The former Yugoslavia Ministry of Defence building in Belgrade, Serbia.

Photographer: Svetlana Dojcinovic/Bloomberg

Serbia must protect its monuments and defy plans by Donald Trump’s son-in-law to raze downtown blocs in the nation’s capital to make way for a large real estate project, said Europe’s top cultural heritage organization.

Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners wants to build a luxury hotel and residences on the site of the Balkan nation’s former defense headquarters in Belgrade, badly damaged by NATO bombing in 1999 during the Kosovo War.