German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her country and Austria are calling for a special European Union summit next week to discuss the continent's migration crisis.

Merkel said Tuesday after meeting Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann that the two countries proposed a summit to EU President Donald Tusk.

She said that the idea is not to discuss so-far stalled plans for a redistribution of refugees around the EU, which is in "good hands" with EU interior ministers.

Instead, Merkel said that leaders would discuss how to support countries from which people are fleeing; how to work better with Turkey, from which many are setting off in flimsy boats for Greece; and how to speed up the setting up of camps known as "hot spots" in Greece and Italy to register incoming refugees.

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Poland's prime minister says the country will receive refugees fleeing for their lives with an "open heart" but will expect them to return home when their countries are safe.

Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz said Tuesday that Poland is reviewing its capacity to host refugees and will likely take in more than the 2,000 it said it would. But she gave no new figure. The European Union wants Poland to take in about 12,000 people.

"We will shelter them while the situation at home threatens their life or health," Kopacz said. "We cannot guarantee that we will take in the people arriving in Europe forever."

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Syrians who have trekked across Eastern Europe to reach the Hungarian border say no one is leaving their homeland without a good reason.

Zakariah Sharfo Surian, a Syrian refugee from Aleppo, says "Those who leave their countries are fleeing because of the pressures of war — to escape death for a better life ... no one would leave their country without a good reason."

Mohamed Sheikh, a 38-year-old Syrian father from Latakia, said Tuesday at the Hungarian border town of Roszke that European authorities have to come up with a better way for people to seek safety.

He says "children are dying, everyday 20 to 30 people are drowning out at sea. They should stop this, that's what's most important."

He admitted he did cross the Aegean Sea with his family but says "I wouldn't recommend that anyone take these boats." He says "half of one family with us drowned, and many more are still on the way. Go see them in Izmir (Turkey), sleeping on the streets."