On Wednesday 3 July in Lisbon, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, and the Executive Director of the new European Union Drugs Agency, Alexis Goosdeel, officially launched the work of this new agency, which will have a broader remit than the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (see EUROPE B13152A6).
The two leaders also signed a new cooperation agreement with Ecuador on the same day, at a time when the countries of Latin and Central America “are...