Hybrid threats: criminal networks have become a key element of the geopolitical arsenal

In a context of geopolitical instability, as well as economic and political tensions (China, Iran, North Korea), the growing collaboration between organised crime and hybrid threat actors has become an additional destabilizing factor for the European Union (EU) and its Member States.This is one of the conclusions of the latest EUROPOL multi-annual report on the assessment of the threat posed by serious and organised crime in the European Union (…