Tusk threatens leaders with another summit

Council President Donald Tusk tweeted today (11 September) that he will call an extraordinary summit if the Union’s justice and home affairs ministers fail to reach an agreement, based on the Commission’s plan to redistribute 160,000 refugees among them.

On Wednesday (9 September) Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission, appealed to governments to share the refugee burden, and help relieve frontline states such as Greece, Italy and Hungary.