Europe Puts Up the Barriers Again
Fortress Europe is back in business, using riot police methods to repel migrants.
Fortress Europe is sealing its borders again, using barbed wire, water-cannon and tear-gas to keep migrants and refugees out. Internal borders are being patrolled again too. It is a crash test for the principles of the European Union, says the man who runs the think-tank set up by the man who presided over the birth of Europe without borders.
Also, why Hungarians resent being criticised for their government's forceful approach, what the Russians are doing in Syria (and how we know they are there), and has Mugabe lost his mojo? And, why Elton John is singing the blues over the conversation he did not have with the rocket man.
(Photo: Hungarian security forces drive back migrants at the Serbian border. Credit: Getty Images)
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