EU President Donald Tusk certainly has his hands full. Yesterday, he was in yet another meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron in an effort to hammer out an EU reform deal.

David Cameron is adamant that he will call a referendum to see whether British people want to remain members of the European Union, if there are not reforms to the current set of rules.

Britain wants more independence to introduce any rules which it may deem to be fit, without having any interference from Brussels.

Britain is still a very wealthy country, but the government wants to curb welfare benefits to migrants from other EU countries.

If he gets enough reform, Cameron will urge British voters to back continued EU membership in a referendum that must be held by next year and could come as early as this summer.

The EU allows citizens to work and live freely among member nations — but Britain's Conservative government says hundreds of thousands of people from Eastern Europe who have flocked to the UK are straining schools, hospitals and social services.

Welfare benefits have become the key issue, and main sticking point, in Britain's negotiations with the rest of the EU.

On Friday top EU officials offered Britain a mechanism known as an "emergency brake" that would let the UK temporarily limit benefits to immigrants if the country's welfare system comes under strain.

The proposal could satisfy Britain's goal of regaining some control over immigration and other countries' desire to maintain the principle of free movement.

Cameron said Friday that the proposal is "not good enough ... but we are making progress." He's likely to tell Tusk the "emergency brake" must take effect sooner and stay in place longer than the EU has proposed.

Britain also wants to see more power ceded from Brussels to national parliaments, a reduction in EU red tape and protection for the nine EU countries, including Britain, that do not use the euro single currency. Whether or not they can come to agreement, remains to be seen. And what is even more pertinent to ask is how other EU member states – Malta included – are going to react to any proposed rule changes.

It also begs the question. If it is good for the goose, then surely, it should be good enough for the gander. Will these concessions be made just to the UK, or will the rules be changed across the board.

With all that to contend with, the EU chief has also repeatedly raised the alarm about Schengen travel rules. Mr Tusk said that if the EU does not get to grips with the migration crisis that has engulfed it, passport-less travel will be ditched and consigned to the history books. While, on paper, it appeared to be a great thing for EU citizens, the reality has been shown since some nations – Malta included suspended them for a time. The number of people caught moving around on fake passports has been an eye opener. If the EU cannot come to some sort of agreement, or find a lasting solution, then it could soon become a thing of the past. But then again, most EU citizens seem to feel that it is probably a good idea.