What I mean, of course, is that with the Treaty of Amste
rdam we launched an ambitious project to establish a greater European area of freedom, security and just
ice. At the Tampere Special European Council, the European Commission and the Member States initiated a process of improving the structures for in
ternal security, in order to provide stability in the daily lives of the general public, by guaranteeing to effectively combat or
...[+++]ganised crime and drug trafficking and to address other public order issues.