Tusk calls emergency summit on refugee crisis

European Council President Donald Tusk has summoned EU leaders to an emergency summit next Wednesday (23 September) to discuss migration and a proposed scheme to distribute 120,000 asylum seekers across the 28-nation bloc.

European Union interior ministers failed on Monday (14 September) to agree on a quota system designed to spread the burden of this year's huge influx of migrants into Europe, many of them fleeing conflict in Syria and Iraq.