[E-rundbrief] Info 1906 - TNI The Business of Building Walls.

[Matthias Reichl]

E-Rundbrief Info 1906: Transnational Institute/ TNI: The Business of 
Building Walls.

Bad Ischl,8.11.2019

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Dear reader,

The Berlin Wall fell in November, 1989, thirty years ago this month. 
Many celebrated the dawn of a new era of unity, openness and the 
beginning of a new world. But today, after three decades, we see a new 
rise of walls far more expansive than even the Berlin Wall. Since the 
1990s, European countries have built more than 1000 km of impenetrable 
border walls.

TNI has put out multiple publications on walls and borders ( 
https://www.tni.org/en/topic/border-wars ), and to mark this 
anniversary, we are launching a report that explores the business of 
building walls, which has both fuelled and benefited from a massive 
expansion of public spending on border security by the European Union 
(EU) and its member states. We also launch the first episode of a 
special State of Power podcast series: Border Wars: Putting the 
“migration crisis” in perspective: 
https://www.tni.org/en/state-of-power-podcast.


The Business of Building Walls
	
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe is once again 
known for its border walls. 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.

This report explores the business of building walls, which has both 
fuelled and benefited from a massive expansion of public spending on 
border security by the European Union (EU) and its member states. Some 
of the corporate beneficiaries are also global players, tapping into a 
global market for border security estimated to be worth approximately 
€17.5 billion in 2018, with annual growth of at least 8% expected in 
coming years. https://www.tni.org/en/state-of-power-podcast


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