The UK, France and Germany are calling for better processing of migrants arriving in southern Europe - to identify those most in need of protection.
The three interior ministers have signed a joint statement, stressing the need to set up fingerprinting "hot spots" in Italy and Greece.
They're also calling for a special meeting of EU officials to discuss the crisis within the next two weeks.
Jonathan Edgar is the COO of the charity Goal. Speaking to Shane Coleman on the Sunday Show earlier today, he said Europe is facing one of its biggest political issues in the since World War II:
Meanwhile three children are in a critical condition after they were rescued from a lorry carrying 26 migrants in Austria.
The two girls and a boy, aged five and six, were found in a dire state when police stopped the vehicle after a chase near the town of St Peter am Hart on the border with Germany, a police spokesman said.
The nationalities of the children have not been revealed but those found with them were Syrians, Afghans and Bangladeshis.
Austrian Police spokesman David Furtner described it as "a very close call", saying the children were already experiencing dizziness due to being in the hot lorry for so long and "would not have made it much longer".
He added: "The driver did not give a damn about the people in the back.
"We would not transport animals under these conditions on our roads in Austria."
The lorry driver, a 29-year-old Romanian man, was arrested while the children and adults were taken to hospital in the town of Braunau.
The discovery comes days after 71 migrants, including four children, were found dead in another lorry in Austria.
Four men - three Bulgarians aged 50, 30 and 29, and an Afghan aged 28 - appeared in a court in Kecskemet, Hungary on Saturday accused of involvement in people smuggling.
The case is being prosecuted in the country because it is claimed the truck began its journey from the city before collecting the migrants near the Serbian border.
The four were jailed for one month to allow the case to be investigated.
