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". – Mr President, personally speaking, I believe that organised crime is the cancer of our society and, like cancer, it is very difficult to cure.
Mr Newton Dunn’s report is an excellent one, but is it enough? I would just mention two aspects that should, I feel, cause us to consider reviewing our strategy further. First, fighting organised crime using the classic police and judicial methods has proven largely futile. We need to look at new, fresh methods of dealing with it. For example, much organised crime is connected with drug trafficking. By adopting a more liberalised stance on drugs, we could help drug users deal with their sickness and at the same time eliminate drug traffickers.
Secondly, in some cases organised crime thrives because it has the backing and cooperation of corrupt politicians or corrupt policemen. Do we have in place in all Member States the necessary effective means to correct this situation, or do we just pretend that this corruption does not exist? Unfortunately, this piece of legislation, although it contains many fine things, does little in respect of the two points I have just mentioned. That shows, in my view, that neither the Commission nor Parliament is yet ready or brave enough to cut deep and remove the cancer of organised crime from our society before it is too late."@en1
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