AI offers European drug gangs a tech boost

EU agency chief warns traffickers are tapping new technologies to develop and deliver illegal substances

Let this be a warning – if Europe worries about Trump, it has even more reason to fear JD Vance | Gaby Hinsliff

His toxic Henry Nowak intervention fits a pattern. Vance has hard-right views, a disdain for European society – and he may yet become president Immigration is falling in Britain. It’s falling so fast and so hard – net migration to the UK nearly halved between 2024 and 2025 – that before long we could conceivably be a shrinking population, with more people leaving the country than coming here. (And no, that’s not because of an exodus of bright young Britons fleeing overseas, though you wouldn’...

By Gaby Hinsliff

Cocaine involved in ‘majority’ of overdose deaths in Cyprus

Cocaine played a part in the majority of deaths caused by drug overdoses in Cyprus in 2024, according to data released in the European Union drugs agency’s latest annual European drug report on Tuesday. The report found that cocaine was involved in the majority of overdose deaths in three other EU member states – Luxembourg, […]

Drug smuggling methods change to evade detection - report

Transnational organised crime groups have diversified their drug trafficking routes and methods of smuggling to evade detection and bring multi-million Euro drugs consignments to Europe, according to the latest EU drugs report.