Denmark approved the construction of a separation wall with Germany

January 28, 2019

The political authorities took the decision to protect one of their most important economic activities.

Denmark started building a wall at the border with Germany for prevent the spread of African swine fever which affects the pork industry. The works will cost 10.7 million euros and will be completed in October this year.

This initiative was approved in June by the Danish Parliament, along with other measures, to protect the national hog sector, one of the most powerful Europe and eliminate the country's boar. Denmark Bet on the disappearance of wild boars on their territory because they usually arrive from Germany and bring with this virus that affects the communities of pigs that are raised there.

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The wall will be more than 70 kilometers long and only one and a half meters high. It will also have openings at the crossing points so that the inhabitants who must cross the border can do so in all normalcy and that the zones of intersection with large rivers are free.

The Scandinavian Ministry of Agriculture issued a statement in which he explained the reasons for this construction: "We have thousands of reasons to do everything possible to prevent African swine fever from reaching Denmark and we can now erect the fence, and with it and our wild boar hunt, we want to break the chain of contagion and reduce risk. "

The African swine fever is one of the main causes of pig and wild boar mortality, which was repeated last year by several Eastern European countries. Europe This is not the case for other animals or humans, for which it is completely harmless.

The Danish pork industry exported more than 4 000 million euros in 2016 and a large part of this sale was destined for European Union.