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Border walls and fences around European countries have grown by 75% in just 10 years and EU leaders are increasingly open to making deals with autocrats, creating a virtual border across the Mediterranean to stop migrants arriving on their shores.
The Guardian’s senior global development reporter Mark Townsend looks back at a decade in which Europe became a fortress, militarizing its borders and moving away from the commitment to human rights on which it was founded
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