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The phenomenon of organised crime in Europe, along the lines of the mafia or similar groups, is taking root and spreading rapidly in the ‘Old Continent’.
This is a worrying phenomenon where criminals profit from the free movement of persons and economic and financial movements within the European Union in order to expand their own illegal activities more and more, including in countries outside the EU.
These activities include arms and waste smuggling (including radioactive waste), drugs trafficking, the sexual exploitation of women and children, trafficking in human tissues (the cases discovered and reported a few days ago in Ukraine are tragic examples of what is currently taking place) and illicit operations involving animals and artworks.
The Newton Dunn report points out, among many other things, the role played to date by Europol and Eurojust – the only available Community instruments – in the fight against organised crime, underlining some results that have been achieved but deploring their lack of genuine autonomy.
On this point, I would like to advance once again my proposal, which was addressed to the Commission and the Council back in February 2004, to create a European monitoring centre on organised crime with the aim of reducing the discrepancies in the sanctions existing in the various legal systems of the individual Member States, discrepancies that Mr Newton Dunn has taken the timely step of pointing out."@en1
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