French president, Emmanuel Macrona proposal of Coalition against drug trafficking Within the framework of the summit of the European political community (CPE) that has taken place in Copenhagen. The objective of this initiative is to mobilize networks and present joint actions with all member countries that allow fight this scourge on the continent and seeks to improve coordination for fight port traffic and drug maritime through the Information exchange Between participating countries. In addition to reinforce financial surveillance systems to detect illicit money flows related to these activities.
“The threat of drug trafficking and drug trafficking today has reached an especially worrying level, not only in the European Union, and there is the need for treaties and concrete cooperation to address the issue of drug trafficking at the level of the CPE and with the countries arranged,” said the Elysee Palace.
This coalition has been supported by neighboring countries, Italy and Spacewho face concern the growing problem of drug trafficking, both in appearance healthcare as in the delinquency. In the case of Spain, the country is leading the world ranking of Cocaine consumption. According to the European Drug Report 2025, 13.3% of Spaniards between 15 and 64 have taken cocaine at least once in his life, the highest figure in the EU above 9.4% of France and Denmark, or 8% of the Netherlands. Italy, on the other hand, recorded a record of deaths from cocaine among young people in 2024.
“In co -presidency with the leader Giorgia Meloniwe have launched a cooperation initiative because we clearly need to act at the level of all of Europe, from Caucasus to Balkans, including northern Europe, to completely eradicate this drug trafficking. (…) Therefore, we have taken several very specific initiatives, related to European carriers and ports, which will follow up on the launch of this coalition, “said the President Macron from Copenhagenin reference to the support requested by Netherlands To pay for the security of the Port of Rotterdam, one of the main drug entry doors in Europe.
European ports as an objective
One of the main objectives of this coalition is to fight The drug entry into the continent through the ports, like that of Rotterdamwhere in the last year about 26 tons of cocaine were seized.
The security of this space has been on the table for years, since given its magnitude and its activity, its cost reaches unassumable figures for the Netherlands, as both countries already denounced in 2023 through a statement, where they expressed Its inability to guarantee security against drug trafficking of this solo port, and requested the cooperation of the European Union to stop the problem.
A petition that the French government quickly collected, from where they also insisted that the fight against this problem cannot be carried out unidirectionally, but must be a joint objective of all European countries.
France’s open war against narco
Given the growing problem, France has declared war public to drug trafficking, calling her “the mother of battles.” Since then, the Executive has taken a Purge of its institutionsaffected by the violence and corruption of these bands, dismissing officials and allocating New magistrate places focused on this topic. In addition to carrying out anti -drug macrooperative constants in different cities of the country, especially in Marseillesarea affected by the violence of organized bands financed with the sale of narcotics.
Within this Plan Antidroga, The Gallic country recently opened a maximum security prison which houses only the 100 largest drug traffickers in the country under unpublished controls and an anonymous staff formed for this work.
All this to reduce record figures both seizure and cocaine consumption registered in the country in recent years. Only in 2024, the authorities seized 47 tons in the first 11 months, twice as much in 2023. Precisely, 75.4% of the seized drug currently enters through the French ports, compared to the 17.1% that does so through the airports, according to the data of the French Drug Observatory.
Not only white dust, records also show a peak of synthetic drugs as MDMA/ecstasywho went from 400,000 consumers in 2019 at 750,000 in 2023.
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