Organised crime in EU thriving on liberalisation

As borders come down within and beyond Europe, it is not only legitimate businesses that are benefiting, but those businesses that produce drugs, traffic in humans, manufacture fake luxury goods and counterfeit euros - businesses better known as organised crime - are profiting too, according to a new report from the EU's criminal intelligence agency.

Liberalisation, low-cost airlines, and China's low-wage economy are all helping Europe's gangsters to thrive while the rest of the economy...