Source: BBCNews
- Slovenia has threatened to erect a fence along its border with Croatia if an EU plan agreed on Sunday is not implemented.
- Some 85,000 refugees have poured into the tiny nation in the last 10 days, after Hungary closed its Croatia border.
- To Hungary's north, Austria is also set to beef up barriers at its border crossings to control large crowds.
- The approach of winter has so far done little to slow the flow.
- The UN estimates more than 700,000 migrants have crossed to Europe by boat so far this year - mainly from war-ravaged Syria.
- Some transit countries have been seeking to limit the influx, leading to bottlenecks and tensions with neighbours.
- Most migrants have been making their way to northern Europe - primarily to Germany, expected to receive up to a million asylum seekers this year.
- Tensions have been growing there too, with Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere complaining on Wednesday that Germany had given Afghanistan development aid and troops, and that Afghans would be better off staying and trying to rebuild the country.
- "People who come to us as refugees from Afghanistan cannot all expect to be able to stay in Germany," he said.
- Normally friendly relations between Germany and Austria have been strained in recent days, with Germany accusing Austria of dumping migrants on its border.
- On Sunday, 11 EU states and three non-EU countries agreed to set up reception centres with another 50,000 spaces in Balkan countries, and send 400 guards to assist Slovenia within a week.
- But EU members have previously been slow to deliver on pledges of such assistance. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker complained on Wednesday that fewer than half of the 775 border guards pledged to the Frontex border agency over the past month had been provided.
- He also said that promises of financial support had not been kept.