Dr. Tena Prelec gives an interview to Hungarian Daily Népszava on Corrosive Capital in the Western Balkans and Associated Trio

Dr. Tena Prelec gives an interview to Hungarian Daily Népszava on Corrosive Capital in the Western Balkans and Associated Trio

The Hungarian newspaper Népszava has published an interview with GEO-POWER-EU researcher and Assistant Professor Dr. Tena Prelec (University of Rijeka & BiEPAG), titled “Balkan Mini-Dubais and Trump Towers – Corrosive Capital Is Coming, Ignores Laws and Buys Politics.”

Drawing on the GEO-POWER-EU Deliverable on “Foreign Influence Challenges: Corrosive Capital and Disinformation in the Western Balkans and Associated Trio” she argues that corrosive capital departs from standard foreign direct investment because deals are struck at the highest political levels and framed through customized legal arrangements that appear lawful yet erode transparency, accountability, and the public interest. She highlights that these projects depend on the complicity of domestic political elites and transnational financial networks, pointing to the need for stronger national oversight and more robust EU conditionality.

Read the full interview on Népzava.

*Featured Image: Waterfront project in Belgrade| Photo: Dávid Huszár | Source: Népszava