As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, the drug group was the most commonly seized drug across the nordics and in the east of Europe, aside from Hungary and Romania where MDMA was the most frequently seized drug.

Heroin was the most commonly seized drug across southern Europe, more specifically in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece.

Meanwhile, cocaine was the most frequently seized drug in Ireland, Denmark, and Belgium. With 5,354 reports in Belgium in 2020, it is the country with the most frequent number of cocaine busts of all analyzed countries, and also had the most cocaine seized in terms of actual quantity, with 70,254kg being taken in.