Mr. Schröder's announcement came two days after a mini-summit meeting of European leaders at 10 Downing St.
The gathering, a mini-summit of 11 leaders, was called to deal with the mass of refugees taking the Balkan route from the eastern Mediterranean to richer EU countries.
AS THE foreign ministers of Europe and North America gather next week for a mini-summit of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, they have something to celebrate: the seating of Yugoslavia as the OSCE's newest member.
David Cameron has just come back from a mini-summit of Nordic countries in Iceland where – and don't ask me why – the leaders were presented with some Lego bricks and challenged to turn them into a duck.
The worsening divisions over what to do about refugees, the future of the Schengen area, and the re-establishment of national border controls were laid bare by a mini-summit of eight countries that preceded the full meeting.
The situation arose after Austria – imposing a cap on the number of refugees it would accept – held a mini-summit of eastern European and Balkan states in which it was agreed that restrictions would be tightened to stem immigration.
More unusually, Mr Obama found himself in control of a mini-summit of European leaders at the G20 meeting in Cannes as he tried, and failed, to persuade Germany to strengthen the euro-zone firewall.Mr Obama's America has urged European countries to act more boldly, refrain from throwing Greece out of the euro and move towards deeper integration.
"The issue of access to social benefits continues to be among the most sensitive," Tusk said after seeing the Czech prime minister, Bohuslav Sobotka, who chaired a mini-summit of the four countries, known as the Visegrad-4, in Prague on Monday.
The prime minister, who will meet the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, today in Rome before a mini-summit of the four EU leaders in the G20 in Berlin on Sunday, declined to be drawn on the specifics of his plan.
Italy's prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, was speaking at a mini-EU summit in Brussels, where he said a plan from his government presented at the summit represented a paradigm shift in dealing with migration.
But it is still a very mini-summit, gathering up only four of the Union's 25 current and future members.
