By Ivana Sekularac

BELGRADE (Reuters) -Serbia’s parliament began to debate on Tuesday a plan that would fast-track the development of a luxury compound in Belgrade proposed by the investment company of U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The Serbian authorities and Kushner’s U.S.-based Affinity Global Development signed a 99-year lease deal in May 2024 allowing the company to overhaul two buildings which once housed the headquarters of the Yugoslav People’s Army.

The project, which would include a hotel, apartments, shops and office spaces, triggered widespread protests among many who see the old headquarters, which were damaged in a 1999 NATO bombing campaign, as a culturally significant tribute to those who died and a monument to Yugoslav-era modernist architecture

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