Brussels, 25/02/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 25 February, EU home affairs ministers agreed to continue discussions on a European pact, planned for adoption in April; to combat international drugs trafficking. The French initiative, which drew the backing of the other European countries, could be put to the European Council in June. The document notes that member states are determined to deliver a decisive blow against criminal gangs involved in drugs trafficking. Increased coordination between European countries is on the menu, as is a “sharing of tasks” within the EU, so that groups of states can devote their resources to the type of effort that they are best able to deliver, while benefiting from the efforts by their partners in other kinds of action (for example, targeting cocaine smuggling in the countries in the west of the EU, and combating heroin smuggling in the countries of the east of the EU). The pact would seek especially to block cocaine routes through West Africa, heroin routes in the Balkans, and better address criminal assets, by facilitating seizures or confiscation, through Eurojust for example. (B.C./transl.rt)