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As the European Union expands, it's come face to face with a new world.

By Christopher Dickey
Newsweek International

Oct. 24, 2005 issue - The Africans had walked for days from the vast Sahara to reach those high fences topped with razor wire that are all that separates their world from two tiny outposts of Europe on the southern shore of the Mediterranean. They came from Senegal, from Mali, from Mauritaniaâ€â€