Unprecedented crisis has EU searching for answers

Foreign ministers from all 28 nations summoned to a special meeting

European Union ministers were summoned on Sunday to meet in two weeks' time to seek urgent solutions to a migration crisis unprecedented in the bloc's history, as the mounting death toll on land and sea forced governments to respond.

Luxembourg, which holds the rotating EU presidency, called interior ministers from all 28 member states to an extraordinary meeting on Sept 14, saying: "The situation of migration phenomena outside and inside the European Union has recently taken unprecedented proportions."