The Europe News website reports today (January 4, 2011) that Christos Papoutsis, Greek interior minister, has confirmed that Greece will build a 128-mile anti-immigrant wall along its border with Turkey in northeastern Greece.
"Co-operation with the European Union (EU) is going well," Papoutsis said. He added that the EU considers this area to be the most insecure boundary in all of Europe.
Papoutsis was emphatic on Greece's need for this wall, saying, "The Greek public has reached its limit in taking in illegal immigrants. We are absolutely determined on this issue. Greece can't take it any more."
Critics viewed the planned wall as a symbol of widespread opposition to Turkey's EU membership, and an emblem of a new Christian-Muslim divide between West and East.
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