As happened this year, we are facing a permanent risk which demands permanent measures,

Unless strong measures are taken in the course of 2006, we risk witnessing a reversal.

All I could hear was screaming,

You have done great work in seizing drugs and precursors, prosecuting drug-related crimes and seizing weapons and ammunition.

It is essential to pool our resources because we have fires in Portugal, but tomorrow there could be others in Spain, in Italy, in Greece.

States are required to return money and other assets obtained through corruption to the country from which they were stolen.