[NEWS] Five notes about frontiers: South Tyrol, Brexit, Alps, eastern Ukraine, Djibouti

[rfmcdonald]

• Alessio Colonelli takes issue with the granting of a right to Austrian citizenship to only select residents of South Tyrol, over at Open Democracy.


• Immigration to the United Kingdom may be falling, Bloomberg reports, but this is not to the advantage of the British economy.


• Migrants trying to travel from Italy to France are unwittingly risking the terrible snow-bound conditions of the Alps. The National Post has the story.


• Bloomberg View suggests one way forward for peace in eastern Ukraine. I'm not sure, frankly, that this is a plausible path (that there are any, even).


• Politico Europe takes a look at the exceptional strategic importance of Djibouti for militaries around the world, the US and China included.