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EU interior ministers are to discuss how to deal with tens of thousands of migrants trying to enter Europe each year by crossing the Mediterranean.
A key issue at the talks in Luxembourg is a plan to distribute asylum seekers more evenly across all 28 EU states.
The crisis has put a huge strain on Italian, Greek and Maltese resources.
But some northern and eastern European nations argue that migrants should not be forced to move to countries where they do not want to settle.
More than 1,800 migrants have died in the Mediterranean so far this year - a 20-fold increase on the same period in 2014. The majority had set sail aboard rickety, overcrowded boats from strife-torn Libya.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33144575
It's not going to be easy to separate the genuine asylum seekers from the economic migrants and others with more dubious intentions. According to BBC radio, the Italians are not even fingerprinting new arrivals but merely issuing tourist visas to them to head off where they wish.