EU agency furious at Amsterdam brothel

THE EU’S medicines regulator is furious at plans to build a mega-brothel near its headquarters in Amsterdam as the city tries to move sex business away from the city centre.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which left London for Amsterdam after Brexit, said it was “very concerned” about the multi-storey “erotic centre” because it would attract drug dealers and unruly tourists.

The complex is to include around 100 “work spaces” for sex workers as well as bars and entertainment.

Authorities want to relocate legal sex work away from the city-centre red light district because its popularity with drunken tourists has made life unbearable for residents.

Three possible new locations have been proposed.

Two are near the new EMA building, which is near major hotels and the city’s financial district in Amsterdam’s southern Zuidas district.

An EMA spokesman said: “The change of the location of the red light district is motivated by concerns of nuisance, drug-dealing, drunkenness and disorderly behaviour. Locating the erotic centre in close proximity to EMA’S building is likely to bring the same negative impacts to the adjacent area.”

The EMA said its deal with the Dutch government guaranteed the “security and tranquillity” of its offices.