Centrum Stosunków Międzynarodowych - 25 August 2016: The Norwegian government plans to build a steel fence to protect the country from an influx of migrants

The fence is going to be installed around the Storskog border point at the Norway-Russia border in a few weeks. Last year, 5,500 migrants used this border point to cross into Europe. Russia has had a 120-mile long fence at the border with Norway since the Cold War. The plans of the Norwegian government have been already criticized by the Refugees Welcome group in Norway and the Norwegian officials from the border region. Among other Nordic countries, Sweden also expressed the intentions to set up border controls and toughen asylum rules.

This March, Europe's migration chief Dimitris Avramopoulos said that building fences were not a solution to a refugee crisis, and they did not work. Thus, the European Union does not fund building fences.