Disunity costing Europe drugs battle

EUROPE is not winning the battle against drug trafficking because each of the 27 member states is fighting the narcotics trade on its own, according to the European Commission’s top drug adviser.

The startling warning comes amid growing concerns over the levels of heroin and cocaine trafficking into the European Union.

Carel Edwards, the head of the drug coordination unit at the commission’s justice directorate, said that given the drugs trade was a “global problem” the only response which would work was a European-wide one