02/07/2018 (Agence Europe) – On Sunday 1 July, the EU Customs Union celebrated its 50th anniversary. To mark this milestone, a number of events will be organised throughout Europe in 2018, celebrating, as European Commissioner Pierre Moscovici put it in a press release, “a tremendous and unique accomplishment”. With over 114,000 customs officers working around the clock, EU customs handled 16% of global trade in 2017. In 2016 alone, 4.6 billion illegal cigarettes, 299 tonnes of drugs,...