Europeans do not want to forget the line that divided Eastern and Western worlds during the Cold War. And this is very important, given the incipient confrontation with Russia. A bike path will be paved along the border between the two former military blocks, reports ee24.com citing thelocal.de.
Length of the new asphalt track will be 6.8 thousand km, and it will go from the Barents to the Black Sea: in Norway and Finland, near the Russian border, then along the coast in the Baltic States and Poland, and then between former capitalist and socialist countries.
EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn calls this project another step towards convergence of Europeans and "overcoming the psychological barriers." However European Commissioner for regional policy does not specify how the new border even being made of asphalt will contribute to the unification.