January 26, 2016 - 16:55 AMT
Central European states to hold migration summit Feb 15

The Visegrad group of central European countries will hold a summit on February 15 to discuss the migration crisis, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka tweeted on Tuesday, January 26, Reuters reports.

The meeting of Czech, Polish, Hungarian and Slovak prime ministers will take place ahead of a February 18-19 summit of European Union leaders at which the crisis will be assessed.

The Visegrad group have called for stricter EU border protection and limits on an influx of migrants, and have protested against an EU quota system intended to redistribute asylum seekers from western Europe.