Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-002068/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Giuseppe Antoci (The Left)
The most recent report on agri-food crimes in Italy[1] points to alarming developments: it finds that the Mafia and organised criminal gangs have been infiltrating the agro-industry at a steady uptick, to the extent that the agromafia’s turnover is now estimated to be around EUR 25.2 billion, having virtually doubled in just over a decade.
What is more, a major finding to emerge from the report pertains to the new supranational dimension that agromafie have taken on: criminal organisations increasingly operate between Italy, European countries and non-European countries. Despite this, agromafia activities in Europe are neither systematically monitored nor catalogued. At European level, not only is there no structured mapping of this phenomenon and the related data, but the (regulatory and operational) fight against organised food crime also has shortcomings; indeed, at EU level, agromafia crimes are not specifically covered in the legal and regulatory framework.
In view of the above:
- 1.Does the Commission intend to start collecting and analysing data on agromafia crimes at European level?
- 2.What action will it take to plug Europe’s legislative gaps in the fight against the agromafia?
Submitted: 22.5.2025
- [1] Published in May 2025 and drawn up by Coldiretti, Eurispes and the Agromafie Observatory Foundation, available at: https://eurispes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/2025_8_rapporto-agromafie.pdf.