PM Alexis Tsipras expected to attend EU 'mini-Summit' on refugee crisis in Austria

His contribution at the summit, as leader of a country directly affected by the refugee crisis, is expected to be particularly significant.
No firm date has yet been set but the mini-summit will be held after the Bratislava European Council on September 16. In addition to the Greek prime minister, others attending will include German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the prime ministers of Slovenia, Croatia and Bulgaria.
Kern's initiative - reinforced by Merkel's attendance - is seen as a move counter to the extreme anti-refugee stance adopted by Austria's far-right nationalist party and also the harsh line adopted by the country's foreign minister, Sebastian Kurz. The mini-Summit is also seen as pre-empting a repetition of Kurz's Western Balkans Conference last February, which excluded Greece.