The Luxembourg EU rotating
presidency on Monday announced that emergency talks will be held
on September 14 to deal with the escalating migration crisis.
Interior ministers from France, Germany and Great Britain
had called for the meeting and spoken about the need to adopt
"immediate measures" such as so called 'hot spots' in Greece and
Italy to identify and register migrants and asylum seekers.
Austria has begun expanding checks on lorries near its
eastern borders, after Europe was shocked by the discovery of 71
dead migrants in a lorry near the border with Hungary.
A boat carrying migrants sank off Libya's Mediterranean
coast, close to Khoms, (east of Tripoli) killing at least 37
people, a local Libyan official said on Sunday, the second such
fatal accident within days.
The first killed more than 200 people.
Pope Francis launched an appeal to stop what he defined as
"crimes that offend the whole family of humanity".
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