In Brussels on Thursday 3 May, the European Parliament expressed “great concern” at the fact that tobacco smuggling into the European Union has intensified in recent years and, according to estimates, represents an annual loss of €10 billion to the public revenue of the budgets of the EU and its member states.
The plague hides a major hotbed of organised crime, including terrorism, and in their adoption of the report by Gilles Pargneaux (S&D, France) on the 2016 report on the fight...