VIENNA (AP) - The latest news on the influx of asylum-seekers and other migrants in Europe. All times local:
1:30 p.m.
The head of the European Commission is calling for a special summit of EU government leaders to deal with the continuing refugee crisis.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters on Wednesday that such a meeting was needed because the regular February summit was already slated to center on the issue of keeping Britain in the EU.
Juncker said he was "rather worried that we won't have enough time to tackle the refugee question in sufficient depth," adding he would ask for an extra summit.
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12:30 p.m.
Subfreezing temperatures and snow have settled in over Central Europe, adding to the difficulties of migrants making heading to Western Europe but not deterring them from continuing their journeys.
Liene Veide, a spokeswoman for the U.N. refugee agency, says around 2,000 migrants continue to cross from Macedonia into Serbia daily, even with temperatures plunging to a low of -19 (-2 F) Wednesday.
She said many arrive without clothing or boots appropriate for the winter weather, and that some have pneumonia, fever or other illnesses. Still, she says most refuse hospitalization and insist on pressing on with their journeys.
Meanwhile, temperatures plunged overnight Wednesday in Romania to the lowest of the year, with -29.5 C (-21 F) recorded in one town in central Romania.
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8:50 a.m.
Before a refugee summit of national and regional government leaders, a senior minister says Austria wants to reduce the number of migrants entering the country to no more than 40,000 a year.
Deputy Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner is cited in Wednesday's Kurier newspaper as saying that his conservative party advocates a figure of 30,000 over four years. The daily says Mitterlehner's Social Democratic coalition partners favor 40,000 over three years.
Mitterlehner acknowledges that such restrictions still must be "legally clarified," in efforts to find a way that a person's right to asylum is not violated.
Close to 90,000 refugees applied for asylum last year in Austria.