Border

Greece’s borders are Europe’s borders  and Greece should decide on the best way to protect them said Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos during his meeting with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Athens on Thursday.

The shooting death of a migrant near Bulgaria's border with Turkey is showing once again the need of a common policy on the security of European Union borders, Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva has said.

We are in the middle of one of the most contradictory moments in history. Two currents are flowing in opposite directions and pulling nation-states at both ends.

The two-decade-old era of border-free travel in Europe was unravelling on Sept. 14 as countries imposed controls on their frontiers in response to an unprecedented influx of migrants. 

It is completely unacceptable that authorities in the countries along the so-called Balkan route are helping migrants reach the Schengen border.

This is what Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said on Friday.

Since 2000, more than 27,000 migrants and refugees have died attempting the perilous journey to Europe. With an unprecedented number of people breaking through its heavily barricaded borders in 2014, the EU continues to fortify its frontiers.

What comes to your mind when you think about the Middle East? For me, it’s the low level of connectivity. Here, we have a region composed of "clammed up" countries, but whoever crammed them together also managed to do so in such a way that they are not entirely disconnected from each other. Each exists in its own shell.

Since the end of the Cold War, the number of sovereign states in the international system has increased, and state borders have changed significantly