Balkan states to share crime intelligence: report
(BELGRADE) - Six Balkan countries have agreed to improve intelligence sharing in the fight against organised crime, the Beta news agency reported on Monday.
Prosecutors from Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia signed a deal in Rome following a meeting organised by the European Union.
"This agreement allows us to share documents, intelligence and evidence more quickly and efficiently in criminal cases," the Serbian prosecutor's spokesman Tomo Zoric told Beta on Monday.
The western Balkans is a key route for the trafficking of drugs and people into western Europe and the EU has made tackling these trades a priority for countries in the region hoping to join the 27-nation bloc.
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