On Monday 19 December, the European Commission presented a proposal to revise the 2011 directive on combating trafficking in human beings. The main changes aim to extend the criminalisation of trafficking in human beings to forced marriages and illegal adoptions.
According to the Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson, about 7,000 people are trafficked into the EU each year, but “this is only the tip of the iceberg”.
These are mainly women and children (1/4 of them) and most...