EU ministers to hold emergency meeting over migrant crisis
Luxembourg is to host a meeting of all 28 ministers in two weeks to discuss concrete steps to resolve the huge surge in people arriving into the EU.
May calls for urgent EU action to tackle migration crisis
Urgent steps must be taken by the European Union to address the growing migration crisis, Theresa May said in a joint call with Germany and France for an emergency meeting of ministers within two weeks.
The Home Secretary said the EU's "broken" system had exacerbated the issue - and called for concrete proposals, such as reception centres to register and fingerprint new arrivals and an agreed list of "safe" countries to speed up asylum decisions, to be drawn up.
The discussions with her French and German counterparts took place during a summit in Paris on Saturday discussing rail security measures in the wake of the gun attack on a French train.
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European countries plan to reject migrant quotas
Slovakia and the Czech Republic call for a collective rejection with Hungary and Poland to accept a mandatory quota of refugees.
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May: Free movement should only be for people with jobs
People should only be allowed to move freely within the EU if they have a job waiting for them, the Home Secretary has said.