- Together, we must convince other partners in the EU, and we will, that the EU's task is to protect the external border and minimize illegal immigration, not to create internal borders and look for mechanisms that merely move groups of illegal immigrants back and forth within Europe. We will cooperate in all aspects here - stated Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a press conference.

- We will firmly insist on the necessity of conducting a very serious political debate about migration in Brussels, during the European Council. It's not about having further routine, not always necessary, not always wise conclusions appear on paper. It's about European leaders seriously considering all the pros and cons of existing solutions, so as to effectively protect the whole of Europe and its member states from the wave of illegal, and increasingly organized by external forces, migration - the head of government continued.