The "Borderland Trail", a cross-national circular trail with original GDR border barriers, pictured near Teistungen, Germany, August 4, 2019. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
Euronews: Europe has built barriers six times the length of the Berlin Wall since 1989
In the three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, European countries have built about 1,000 kilometres of border walls and fences.
That amounts to six times the length of the Berlin Wall, the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute (TNI) flagged in a new report on Tuesday, adding that most have been built since 2015 when Syria's civil war — and the migrant crisis — was at its height.
"This time Europe is divided not so much by ideology as by perceived fear of refugees and migrants, some of the world's most vulnerable people," the report notes.
Newly-built barriers are in locations across the continent, including:
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Update: Arms companies 'rake in billions' as Europe builds new walls (Al Jazeera)
WNU Editor: And the European trend is for even more walls in the future.
