Potts: said private security firms are playing a big part in stopping pirates (Photo: conslium.europa.eu)

EU studying links between Italian mafia and Somalian pirates

The EU special envoy for Somalia is looking into a fresh report that pirates are in business with Italian gangsters on toxic waste.

The Paris-based criminologist, Michel Koutouzis, who carries out investigations for the UN and for EU institutions, described the problem in a new book -

Commission ready to investigate European illegal fishing off Somalia

EU firms should stop toxic dumping off Somalia

Somalia security forces to get EU training

Potts: said private security firms are playing a big part in stopping pirates (Photo: conslium.europa.eu)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

Commission ready to investigate European illegal fishing off Somalia

EU firms should stop toxic dumping off Somalia

Somalia security forces to get EU training