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Artificial island for refugees

09.06.2016

Dutch architect Theo Deutinger is known for his theoretical and experimental work reflecting the challenges of globalization. His latest project is called "Europe in Africa" and is an artificial island created on the shallow Tunisian plateau in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy. This island, which will become a city-state, will host refugees from African countries and will be governed in accordance with the provisions of the European constitution.

Since the supposed basic law of the European Union was rejected by the inhabitants of France and Holland, the Europe in Africa project will provide an opportunity, in the author's opinion, to see if a "fully European state" can actually work. Obviously (although the author does not say so), as refugees as experimental "interacting individuals of their habitat."

This is not the first idea of its kind. Last year, US Silicon Valley real estate developer Jason Buzi proposed a "Refugee Country" in the San Francisco Bay Area, and since then, Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has promised to buy several islands from Italy or Greece to house refugees. However, Deutinger has a certain advantage due to the fact that the efforts of the engineers of his own "small homeland" in Holland in 1986 created the world's largest artificial island, which turned into the province of Flevoland.

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