Europe Day, celebrated on 9 May each year, is dedicated to peace and unity
On this day 75 years ago, it was decided that one community, the European Union, would save the continent. Now the concern must be how the continent can save its European Union community.
Peace and walls exist in a complicated relationship. In distant, dark times, the wall was supposed to provide peace. Construction for this purpose began in 206 BC. The most famous wall in the world, the Great Wall of China, was built to protect China from raiding nomadic tribes from the Eurasian steppe. It did indeed off protection, but the gates could often be opened against bribery and betrayal. Not to mention the whirlwind with which Genghis Khan’s Mongols passed through the wall and captured the capital. There is no wall – no matter how high or how long – that cannot be traversed. There is no such wall; and this is something which still not been learned by adherents of walls.
