Europe seeks solutions to refugee issue

France, Germany, Italy and Spain to attend migrant meeting in Paris

PARIS - Getting Europe's migrant crisis under control will be the main focus of a summit of Europe's "big four" continental powers hosted on Monday by French President Emmanuel Macron, who has invited three African nations to the talks in Paris.

European countries are at loggerheads over how to deal with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war, poverty and political upheaval in the Middle East and Africa.