Europol launches new European Centre Against Migrant Smuggling to dismantle criminal networks, centralise intelligence, and lead EU-wide efforts against the billion-euro illegal migration trade

Europol and EU partners highlight that migrant smuggling is a multi-billion-euro criminal business exploiting vulnerable people, requiring enhanced cross-border cooperation, data-sharing and operational support to Member States. The new centre will act as a permanent hub within Europol, providing strategic, technical and investigative support, improving coordination with agencies such as Frontex and Eurojust, and strengthening the EU’s collective response to human smuggling and trafficking networks…