Press Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office Bertalan Havasi told kormany.hu that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been informed that there will be an emergency EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, which of course he will attend.
On Monday afternoon President of the European Council Donald Tusk announced that he has called the emergency summit of Heads of State and Government in order to discuss the situation in the Mediterranean.
On Sunday approximately seven hundred people trying to get from Africa to Europe drowned at sea when their ship capsized, and on Monday more ships with migrants on board were in danger of meeting the same fate.