CLDP, in coordination with the respective Customs Administrations of Albania and Kosovo, will conduct a targeted technical program at the Port of Durrës focused on strengthening bilateral coordination and enhancing core customs functions. Given Kosovo’s use of a remote customs presence at the Port...

On April 27–28, CLDP, in coordination with the U.S. Departments of Treasury, State, and Energy, as well as CEISD Romania and the CELIS Institute, convened a regional workshop on investment screening in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Delegations from Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro...

On January 28-30, CLDP facilitated a targeted procurement workshop in Warsaw, Poland for delegations from Albania and Kosovo to support the development of national-security safeguards in procurement of strategic sectors, including information and communications technology (ICT) and energy. The...

From September 10-12, 2025, CLDP will host a Regional Western Balkans Customs Workshop in Skopje, North Macedonia focused on Single Window. This workshop will bring together customs officials from all six Western Balkans countries and will feature experts from the European Commission, Polish Customs...

CLDP will lead a delegation from the Western Balkans to the CELIS Forum on Investment Screening in Berlin to support regional efforts to strengthen foreign investment review mechanisms and align with international best practices. As countries in the region move toward deeper integration with the...

CLDP in cooperation with the U.S. interagency and international experts, will host a regional workshop on investment screening mechanisms in the Balkans. Participants from each country will examine the legal and institutional frameworks necessary to implement transparent and effective investment...

CLDP, in partnership with the Romanian Competition Council, organized a workshop in Bucharest, Romania with the goal of assisting EU candidate countries with developing investment screening mechanisms. CLDP will sponsor the attendance of participants from Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia, and...

CLDP is hosting a Regional Western Balkans Judicial Capacity Building Workshop in Tivat, Montenegro focused on best practices in commercial dispute resolution, from both a litigation and mediation perspective. This workshop will feature a US federal judge, 2 Croatian judges, a Montenegrin judge, and...

CLDP hosted a Regional Western Balkans Customs Workshop in Zagreb, Croatia in partnership with the Croatian Customs Administration from September 11-13, 2024. Officials from Croatian Customs presented an overview of Croatian practices in post-clearance audit, digitization and IT, and NCTS. The...

From June 12-19, 2024, CLDP held two government-to-government workshops to assist both the Albanian and the Montenegrin governments with developing an investment screening mechanism. The purpose of these workshops, which brought together officials from several ministries, was to inform the various...