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Sweden in port cooperation against smuggling

by AI | 10.May 2024 | Europe in brief AI

Sweden has been invited to join a European port cooperation with six other countries. The main purpose is to counter crime and drug smuggling through ports.

Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) and Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer (M) in discussion with group leader Sebastian Lundquist as they meet with customs and police staff who worked on the record seizure of cocaine in Norvik's port in Nynäshamn.

Sweden has been invited to join a European port cooperation with six other countries. 

The cooperation between the countries takes place parallel to the cooperation that is already ongoing at the EU level.

“The countries have for a long time formed a sort of inner circle in the work against organized crime,” says Gunnar Strömmer (M), Minister of Justice.

Sweden has asked to participate and has now received an invitation.

The coalition against organized crime – as the cooperation is called – is a deeper cooperation between the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy. The main purpose is to combat crime and drug smuggling through ports.

According to Gunnar Strömmer, Sweden’s entry makes it easier for prosecutors, customs, and ports to share information with their European colleagues.

“We are geographically close to each other and we see that the drug traffic coming to Sweden largely occurs in contexts with these countries. Now we can bring our authorities closer together,” he says.

(May 10)