Despite this, the European Commission is under increasing national pressure to relax its resistance to EU funds being used to build them. But Fortress Europe is about far more than land walls.

Oana Lungescu presents "Fortress Europe" - and she gives her personal view in Comment. The free movement of goods, persons, services and capital are the are the four freedoms on which the European ...

The European Union has a dream: Fortress Europe. The plan is to make the EU largely self-sufficient in weapons and replace the United States as the dominant power in NATO. Decoupling from the U.S ...

It now believes in frictionless trade within the EU’s ramparts but a Common Customs Tariff protecting Fortress Europe from without. Advocates of these restrictions on SAFE argue that they are ...

Not for nothing is Italy's Fenestrelle Fortress know as "Great Wall of the Alps." Covering 320 acres, it is one of the largest fortified structures in Europe. Andrea Vettoretti, AFPT Victor ...

Today, a torture chamber, several courtyards and three small museums – the Fortress, the Rainer Regiments and the Marionette – reside within its walls. When you visit, you'll notice this ...