The migrant crisis is triggering anger within the European Union. Leaders will discuss the problem in Brussels on Thursday. The bloc's president, Donald Tusk, warned time is running short in the high-stakes debate. But solutions seem hard to find. CGTN's Mariam Zaidi has more.

Despite the EU and its member states intensifying efforts to prevent arrivals and outsource migration responsibility to countries outside EU borders, arrivals into Greece and Italy remain high. Italy's new populist government is saying "no more" and has started to turn ships carrying migrants away. The European Parliament's Italian president says that if no coherent migration policy emerges from the summit, Europe will be in danger.  

ANTONIO TAJANI PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT "We need to decide, without delay. We need to stop the illegal migration. And then we need to start debate within the European Council on the debate with the relocation of refugees."     

MARIAM ZAIDI BRUSSELS "One compromise that has the backing of some member states is the idea to have regional disembarkation centers. What it entails is having North African countries screen people and separate economic migrants from refugees. The UNHCR says they're open to the idea but already Libya and Tunisia say they're reluctant to play a role."   

And the chair of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties committee isn't convinced.

CLAUDE MORAES BRITISH MEP "The EU does though have to react when a big country like Italy is becoming so populist because it threatens the whole of the European Union. What can happen is something that's on the table- it's the Dublin reform. I hope this is the route that the European Council takes. And not the lower road of these off-shore asylum centers. If they do this, they will have an unworkable, inhumane policy that will collapse."    

European Parliament members have long called on member states to reach consensus on reforming the EU's common migration and asylum rules. In draft guidelines for the EU summit, Council President Donald Tusk has invited Austria – set to take over the six month presidency of the EU - to simply "continue to do more". Mariam Zaidi, CGTN, Brussels.