The Home Affairs Ministers of the EU27, meeting in Brussels on 25 January for an informal Council meeting, discussed how to step up the fight against drug trafficking, the day after the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU and the Commission launched the European Ports Alliance against drug trafficking.
The launch took place in the Belgian port of Antwerp, where 116 tonnes of cocaine were seized in 2023.
According to the Belgian Minister for the Interior, Annelies Verlinden, the...