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Increasingly, when it comes to borders, Europe appears to be going back to the future. A decade after most countries under the EU banner shed barriers dividing them to allow the free movement of people and goods within the bloc, borders and ad hoc barrier fences are popping up everywhere. These are a response to the wave of non-European migrants and refugees in recent years and these fences are coming up from north to south and vice versa. Even though the flow of migrants has ebbed, concern across Europe is high with populist parties benefiting from some legitimate fears of…
