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The emergency summit was called by the President of the European Council Donald Tusk, to look at ways of limiting the waves of migrants travelling by sea from North Africa to Europe.

The meeting was called following the disaster last week, when as many as 900 migrants drowned off the coast of Libya.
The ten-point plan before the delegates discussed prevention of more deaths, including increasing Frontex’s resources and extending the EU’s Mediterranean rescue service.

However the uncomfortable reality for EU leaders is that although there is somewhat of a moral imperative to act surrounding this situation, the fact is that there is very little appetite from the public across the EU to accept waves of migrants in their respective countries. Indeed unless one has been living in a cave of late, we know that the thorny subject of immigration is very high on the agenda for many high-profile political parties.