Luxembourg: EU's Tusk calls "extraordinary European Council" to tackle Med migrant crisis

European Council President Donald Tusk called on all of the European Union's leaders to come together for an "extraordinary European Council", to be held on Thursday, after the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting at the Kirchberg Conference Centre in Luxembourg, Monday. Tusk called the summit in an attempt to find a solution to the Mediterranean migrant crisis that has claimed over 1600 lives already in 2015. Giving reasons for why he called the summit, Tusk said that "the objective of the summit is to discuss at the highest level what we, the member states and the EU institutions together, can and must do to alleviate the situation now". Describing the ongoing crisis in the Mediterranean, Tusk stated that the situation was "dramatic", and said that "we cannot accept that hundreds of people die when trying to cross the sea to Europe".