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including my home country Sweden, are not unfortunately. When I look at the
statistics we work with drug trafficking cases, human beings trafficking cases,
fraud cases, illegal smuggling of migrants etc. and we do rather well with these.
However, when it comes to environmental crime, I simply don’t see that many
cases and I wonder why is it so. I think that the reason is simply that we don’t
do the big investigations in our member states domestically. Again, Italy may be
an exception but if we don’t do it big, if we don’t have the envision back home,
if we don’t let law enforcers and the prosecutors to do more than just prosecute
the person, if we are just content to go for the couriers, then of course we don’t
get any big cases. It would clearly be a big step to take to go for the ones who
organise the crime; and equally, the same applies to waste trafficking and in that
very severe and serious criminality which we have all the reasons to be very con-
cerned about as it is only bound to grow.

During the course of this conference, we have heard about the European
Commission’s ambitions. I very much welcome theme and I definitely think we
need to move into a green economy, leaving the old linear economy behind and
move into a circular economy, which can only create new job opportunities and

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