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Europol says efforts to smuggle cocaine into Europe will continue to increase over the next two years due to increasing production in South America, Europol’s chief Catherine De Bolle says. “We can’t stop it completely because the demand is too great,” she told dpa. At the same time, the European police authority based in The Hague points to the increasing success of investigators in the fight against international drug trafficking. Last year, more than 300 tonnes of cocaine were confiscated. Europol has never had such a good insight into the organisation of drug smuggling as it did last year,…