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"en.20010403.10.2-259"2
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". – I once heard somebody in another part of Europe, where I was chairing a commission on policing and security, make what seemed to me to be a curious distinction between what they described as 'good honest old-fashioned crime' and political extremism using bombs and bullets. The fact of the matter is there is no good honest old-fashioned crime, but there are plenty of examples where organised criminality, organised criminal behaviour becomes interwoven with political extremism and its manifestation in organised violence.
We have seen that in so many parts of Europe and we are seeing it once again in parts of south-east Europe, including no doubt the Kosovo-Macedonian and Kosovo-Serbia borders. While there are doubtless some who espouse political extremism for political reasons, there are others who see the advantage of cloaking criminal action – trafficking in drugs, trafficking in smuggled cigarettes, trafficking in human beings; they see political causes as a way of providing an umbrella for that criminality. Whatever it is, it is wrong, it must stop, it is what the past was like in south-east Europe. We must do all we can in the European Union to make sure that the future is very different indeed."@en1
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