Danish History Professor Calls for a Wall Around Europe to Stop Immigration

Otherwise, Uffe Østergaard argued, a rift between Eastern, Western and Southern Europe in handling immigration is inevitable. 

Danish history professor Uffe Østergaard has proposed building a wall around Europe to stop immigration. Integration, he argued, has been a failure. 

“After World War II, there was a strong belief that the Nordic welfare state model was so robust and attractive that it could integrate all ‘strangers’”, Uffe Østergaard argued in an opinion piece in the daily newspaper Politiken. 

By his own admission, he too used to share this opinion, but later thought better of it and drifted away from multiculturalism. 

According to him, the time has come for the EU to build a border wall with “wire fences in four lanes, floodlights and watchtowers” as a necessary means of protecting Europe’s frontiers. 

Otherwise, Østergaard believes, there will be an imminent split between Eastern, Western and Southern Europe over contradictory views on the management of immigration, particularly the welfare variety. 

“Protecting borders is necessary, otherwise the population will rebel against the government”, he wrote.

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