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  • More neighbours make more fences

    EUROPE will soon have more physical barriers on its national borders than it did during the Cold War. This year’s refugee crisis, combined with Ukraine’s ongoing conflict with Russia, has seen governments plan and construct border walls and security fences across Mediterranean and eastern Europe. On September 15th, Hungary completed a fence along its border with Serbia, a major point of entry for refugees making their way into the European Union (EU) this year. Within hours, over 60 people were arrested for attempting to scale it. Hungary’s is the latest in a ring of anti-migrant fences along the southern fringes of the EU’s visa-free Schengen zone. In the mid-1990s, Spain fenced off its Moroccan enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, followed in 2012 by fences on Greece’s and Bulgaria’s borders with Turkey. In the last few days reports have circulated on social media that Romania will build defences too. Ukraine began sealing off its border with Russia last year. This year the Baltic states announced they are following suit. That would leave Belarus’s as the only unsealed border between the Baltic and the Black sea.

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