EU COMMISSION ADOPTS FIVE YEAR STRATEGY ON ORGANISED CRIME
April 1st, 2021
The European Commission has unveiled a European Union (EU) Strategy to tackle Organised Crime 2021-2025 (1), a coordinated approach to stop organised crime groups exploiting cross border differences in policing and judicial systems within the 27-country bloc. The EU executive estimates that organised crime costs the EU EUR139 billion a year in lost revenues. So, an effective response makes good financial sense. In its plan, the Commission wants to make EU border and security management systems interoperable by 2023, with a key target being identity fraud, aided ...
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