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European Council President Charles Michel addresses the debate on EU funding for border fences to prevent migrant arrivals, which Poland and other EU countries are calling for but which the Commission is refusing. While Belarus is accused of orchestrating an influx of migrants, blocked at the border with Poland by the country's law enforcement agencies behind barbed wire, Charles Michel says such financing is "legally possible" and actively being discussed. SOUNDBITE
Poland starts the construction of a temporary fence along its 210-kilometre long land border with the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak announced the decision amid concerns in Warsaw that Russia plans to orchestrate an influx of migrants. "The airport in Kaliningrad is now accepting flights from the Middle East and North Africa. I decided to take action to enhance the security of the Polish border," Blaszczak told reporters. IMAGES
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko visits a centre for the hundreds of migrants that remain in Belarus after attempting to cross into the EU via the Polish border. Thousands of migrants -- mainly Iraqi Kurds -- have spent months trying to get into the European Union from Belarus. The crisis escalated earlier this month with around 2,000 setting up a makeshift camp on the border in freezing conditions. IMAGES
A Yemeni migrant who died in Poland in September is laid to rest in the eastern village of Bohoniki, close to the border with Belarus. IMAGES
Images released by Polish Police show the area along the border with Belarus close to the border town of Kuznica which has been entirely cleared of migrant encampments. Some 2,000 migrants who were living in freezing conditions at the border have been moved to a nearby warehouse. The West accuses Belarus of artificially creating the crisis by bringing in would-be migrants, mostly from the Middle East, and taking them to the border with promises of an easy crossing into the EU. Belarus has denied the claim, instead criticising the EU for not taking in the migrants. IMAGES
Members of the ‘Mothers on the Border’ group hold a rally in favour of migrant rights in town at Belarus border. The West accuses Belarus of artificially creating the crisis at its border with Poland by bringing in would-be migrants, mostly from the Middle East, and taking them to the border with promises of an easy crossing into the EU. IMAGES
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