Translation of "Kriminelle banden" in English

The paramilitaries are criminal gangs that must be dissolved immediately.

Organised criminal gangs, increasingly multi-ethnic, act with extreme violence.

We know of the involvement of criminal gangs in this quite extraordinary activity.

I agree that criminal gangs are operating all over the world.

Smugglers, criminal gangs and loud populists feel at home here.

Young people are forced into gangs of delinquents and organised crime.

In addition, the people are being harassed by criminal groups, who are plundering abandoned shops and houses.

They struggle against disease, violence and the exploitation of criminal gangs.

It's unacceptable that criminal gangs continue to take international waterways hostage and threaten thousands of sailors.

Organised crime is significantly involved in this lucrative business, also within the EU.

Organized crime, political hacktivists, and even governments are exploiting the Internet for their own ends.

In October 1800 there was the repression by the Piedmontese troops supported by bands of outlaws.

We must ensure that only safe and effective medicines reach consumers, and we must stop criminal gangs profiting from counterfeit medicines.

Commissioner Gradin therefore underlined last May that fraud against the Community budget is increasingly due to international criminal groups, namely the Mafia.

I heartily welcome the efforts of the Commission to try to tackle the deliberate abuse of the VAT system by criminal gangs who seek to take advantage of the shortcomings in the system.

How does the Commission propose to combat the use of the Internet by criminal gangs across Europe?

Sex trafficking, child prostitution, trafficking of children and managed criminal gangs would all potentially flourish under open border conditions and not enough has been done to curb these crimes in these Member States.

I posed this question because the opponents of cooperation under Schengen always maintain that accession to Schengen will make it more difficult to catch criminal gangs.

For example, could not EUROPOL start working directly with the police forces of the candidate countries, and could not the structured dialogue be extended to cover three issues that are particularly explosive, namely the slave trade, an area in which organized crime is already earning more than in the drugs trade - and secondly the theft and smuggling of works of art, which is a major problem in Bavaria and the Czech Republic, and thirdly the drugs problem, which has already been mentioned?

Admittedly, there are armed bands and criminals but there is above all violent opposition, of a kind we cannot endorse, to the President for two reasons: his self-election and the financial pyramid crisis.

However, along with liberalisation, we have to take into account the fact that making it easier to cross borders may make life easier for illegal immigrants and criminal groups.

For criminal gangs, it is also an extremely profitable business which can take on may different forms, such as sexual exploitation, forced labour, trafficking in human organs, begging, illegal adoption and domestic servitude.

There are still territories outside the control of state authorities where criminal gangs openly defy international authority.

We face a major challenge, as the Prime Minister mentioned, from internationally organised crime, with some criminal gangs now more powerful than some national governments.

Although we support its fundamental objectives, which serve a sound purpose, we are concerned that, as the report stands, the provisions designed to reach this valuable goal do not include sufficient guarantees against potential exploitation by criminal gangs and those seeking to enter the EU illegally.

I hope that in implementing the directive it will be possible for banks to be more proportionate and targeted in their checks so that individual honest citizens trying to open a bank account are not swamped in red tape, while the arms traffickers, criminal gangs and greedy dictators slip through the net.

Well-organised criminal gangs are involved, and it is precisely their activity that the directive aims to hit hard.