EU ADMITS FAILINGS IN ORGANISED CRIME FIGHT

BY DAVID HAWORTH HUNGARY, which currently holds the European Union's (EU's) rotating presidency, made a little noticed promise in January to put organised crime well and truly on the EU agenda. Commercial Crime International attended a Brussels conference where senior figures admitted the EU's response has been far too weak. David Haworth reports. A REFERENCE book on best practices against organised crime is to be published in June the delegates to a two-day transnational crime conference at the European Parliament heard last month (March 29-30), the fruit of a ...


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