LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN EUROPE'S MIGRANTS CRISIS:
- Around 1000 refugees remain stranded in the northwestern Turkish city of Edirne, near the Greek border, after being barred by Turkish authorities from continuing their journey to Europe
- Germany plans to expand its naval operations against human traffickers as part of an EU mission in the Mediterranean
- Germany is boosting passport controls on part of its border with France, as it seeks to slow a record influx of migrants
- Croatia will allow free passage of migrants across its territory, Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic says as about 150 Middle Eastern refugees crossed into the country from Serbia
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Austrian counterpart Werner Faymann have called for a special EU summit next week to debate the crisis, with European President Donald Tusk to announce a decision on Thursday
- EU interior ministers are to meet again next Tuesday in a fresh bid to resolve the quota wrangle
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