Spain is one of the main gateways for drugs entering Europe, according to the annual report on drugs in the EU.Produced by the European . Commission in collaboration with the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA), the report warned that the country is a leader in cocaine and cannabis consumption.The European commissioner for home affairs and migration, Magnus Brunner, warned that “Spain has a special situation because it is a gateway to the European Union, obviously for drugs from Latin America”. Speaking at the report’s presentation
in Brussels this week, he said that the country is doing “everything possible to improve this situation”.Related story general No No No Drug-trafficking Spain’s National Security warns of 600 narco-boats that ‘do not hesitate to ram’ vessels and use weapons of war Melchor Sáiz-PardoThe EU executive also praised the country’s cooperation, noting that according to the report it is the member state that seizes the most cannabis resin and where the largest number of cannabis plants have been confiscated – 206 tonnes, 75 per cent
of the entire EU total in 2024.Spain is also the leader in cocaine seizures, with 124 tonnes seized, double the amount seized in France (52), which ranks second. In total, Spanish authorities intercepted 37 per cent of the cocaine seized in the EU as a whole in 2024. The report also draws attention to local processing activity within the country, where seven cocaine laboratories and seven laboratories for the production of MDMA were dismantled.
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