Poland is spending 353 million euros on a five and a half meter high and 186 km long fence on the border with Belarus.
More than three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world, and Europe in particular, is recoiling from all fears and rebuilding barriers on all sides. This time, not so much because of a purely ideological and military order, but because of the fear of waves of refugees and migrants fleeing wars and poverty in the Middle East or Africa. The most recent of these fences, built in Poland, could even be called “Iron Curtain 2” were it not for a five and a half meter high steel wall that stretches along the 186 kilometers of the border with Belarus.
The project, with a budget of 353 million euros, was at the root of the migration crisis provoked when Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko opened the country’s doors to refugees from the Middle East to bring them to the borders with Poland and Lithuania. , neighbors of the European Union.
