What I mean, of course, is that with the Treaty of Amsterdam we launched an ambitious project to establish a greater European area of freedom, security and justice. At the Tampere Special European Council, the European Commission and the Member States initiated a process of improving the structures for internal security, in order to provide stability in the daily lives of the general public, by guaranteeing to effectively combat organised crime and drug trafficking and to address other public order issues.
Lors du Conseil européen extraordinaire de Tampere, la Commission européenne et les États membres ont entamé un processus de renforcement des structures de sécurité intérieure en faveur de la stabilité de la vie quotidienne de nos citoyens, garantissant une lutte efficace contre la criminalité organisée, contre le trafic de drogue et d’autres aspects d’ordre intérieur.