NOVA ŽELJEZNA ZAVJESA
NEW IRON CURTAIN

Summary/Abstract: I am at the border crossing to Morocco, in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in the north of Africa, exactly where the Strait of Gibraltar separates it from the European continent. On both sides are metal goalposts, freshly painted blue on the Spanish side, rather battered on the Moroccan side. Behind me, a high fence, on a wide concrete base, extends into the shallows of the Mediterranean Sea. Looking inland, an even more menacing modern double fence winds its way through the hilly landscape. The part that faces Morocco reaches over six meters in height, additionally fortified at the top with cylindrical barbed wire to make it even more difficult to cross, and a sand belt too wide to jump over, another fence, video cameras and sensors. Here is the new European Iron Curtain.

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