Ylva Johansson: 'Impunity is over' for human trafficking in the European Union
Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson participated in a meeting of the EU Network of National Coordinators and Rapporteurs, on trafficking in human beings - the last meeting of her mandate. High on the agenda was the European Union's approach to human trafficking, in which she declared "impunity is over" for those guilty of trafficking. "Last year, traffickers generated over 200 billion dollars worldwide. We are now countering the culture of impunity with a new asset recovery rule that I put forward. We'll take away the fast cars, big houses and mountains of cash from the criminals" sa...