Walls, duties, new frontiers. It is 2017, not 1947. And still, this is the reality. We are not questioning if and where these kind of measures are appropriate or not, useful or not. But we have to admit that this was not even in the more adventurous thoughts of anyone of us at the start of the new century. Erasmus Project, European Union, free trade, democracy, sometimes labeled like a good to be exported. Millions of people thought this was the direction; in fact this huge mass was wrong. The present is made of war, fears, defense tactics, deterrence, power politics. Was this the world we dreamt? No, I would say. But it is our world. And here we have to stand to make it a better place., duties, new frontiers. It is 2017, not 1947. And still, this is the reality. We are not questioning if and where these kind of measures are appropriate or not, useful or not. But we have to admit that this was not even in the more adventurous thoughts of anyone of us at the start of the new century. Erasmus Project, European Union, free trade, democracy, sometimes labeled like a good to be exported. Millions of people thought this was the direction; in fact this huge mass was wrong. The present is made of war, fears, defense tactics, deterrence, power politics. Was this the world we dreamt? No, I would say. But it is our world. And here we have to stand to make it a better place.