Investing.com - Bitterly-divided European leaders will seek to find a credible response to the continent's worst migration crisis since World War Two at an emergency summit in Brussels on Wednesday.
German chancellor Angela Merkel called on her peers on Sunday to accept joint responsibility, but also warned that Germany could not shelter those who were moving for economic reasons rather than to flee war or persecution.
The 28-member European Union has struggled to find a unified response to the crisis, which has tested many of its newer members in the East that are unaccustomed to large-scale immigration.
The influx of migrants, most of them fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, has led to bitter recriminations between European governments while the temporary closure of national borders has undermined one of the most tangible achievements of the bloc.