Does the EU have a drug problem? Take our poll

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15/06/2026 - 9:00 GMT+2

The EU’s drug strategy is the Council’s ambitious response to growing concerns about European drug use and trafficking. The European Union Drugs Agency’s 9 of June report revealed at least 7.600 annual overdose deaths. Synthetic drug trafficking increased by over 1.000 percent in a decade. Organised crime networks are adapting to increased law enforcement by shifting cocaine shipments to secondary regional ports.

This all means that over 29 million European adults are actively consuming illicit substances, driving more than 1 million law enforcement seizures annually

The Council’s new framework, adopted by unanimous political consensus, will force major EU maritime ports to form alliances and coordinate. It will also target trafficking finances and impose legal bans on certain chemicals to stop synthetic drug production, in an aggressive attempt to systematically dismantle organised crime.