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Lexoni pėrfundimin e 20 vjet propagande sistematike italiane nėn emrin e OKB-sė: Citim: CRIME: ALBANIAN DRUGS FLOODS EU, UN ALARM
(By Chiara De Felice) (ANSAmed)
BRUSSELS, MAY 29 - Almost all the heroin which circulates in Europe is managed by Albanian traffickers, a turnover which exceeds the gross domestic product of many Balkan states: the latest United Nations report on crime in the eastern Adriatic does not use roundabout expressions and does not hesitate to describe the dark side of Albania, that is its organised crime, a true ''threat for the European Union''.
It is the country's geographic position, the report explains, that favours the growth of the business which is the major source of income for the organised crime in the Balkan area and in southeastern Europe.
Halfway on the road between the world's major producer of heroin and cocaine (Afghanistan) and the market with highest demand (western Europe), Albania leaves every year 100 tonnes of white powder pass across, pocketing between $25 and $30 billion. A similar traffic, the report explains, only exists thanks to the complicity of the police, coastal guard (the traffic passes mostly by sea), officials and local population, a consideration which leads to one of the report's conclusions: the connection between organised crime, politics and the business world is still the biggest problem of the Balkans.
Italy, the UN points out, is one of the countries preferred by the Albanian traffickers who work together with the Sacra Corona Unita, or United Sacred Crown. According to data by the Rome authorities, 15 tonnes of heroin were seized between 1998 and 2006, of which 10 coming from Albania.
But the Albanian matrix of the international drug traffic goes well beyond the data available: together with the criminals with Albanian passports, the report explains, we have to consider all those who have changed their nationality but who are in there because they are connected to their co-nationals thanks to the strong ethnic identity.
The second illegal traffic of the Balkans is traffic in human beings. The Balkans, epicentre of the human trafficking as the UN report says, lead into Europe some 120,000 immigrants a year, illegal or not, but all bound to boost the ranks of prostitution, black market and exploitation. The country most affected by the traffic is again Albania.
The latest worrying data, according to the UN, concerns corruption, a widespread phenomenon to the point that it looks normal for the residents of the area. A total 85% of the entrepreneurs in Albania say it is normal to give bribes, and 63% of the Bosnian managers are also sharing that opinion, as well as 49% of Croatians, 76% of Bulgarians and 73% of Romanians, two countries, despite having entered the EU, continue to have characteristics similar to their Balkan neighbours.
This goes to show that the European prospective, tagged by Brussels as solution for all evils, is surely not a rapid solution.
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