The Latest: EU summit to look at new border agency plan

BRUSSELS (AP) — The latest news on the mass movement of asylum-seekers and migrants to Europe, including developments from an EU summit where leaders are discussing the issue. All times local.

A family disembarks from a boat of Frontex, European Border Protection Agency, at the port town of Petra, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. Greek authorities say two people have drowned and 83 others have been rescued after a wooden boat crammed with refugees sank in the Aegean Sea off the eastern Greek island of Lesbos.

11:35 a.m. European Union leaders are converging on Brussels for an end-of-year summit focused on tackling Europe's migrant crisis and other issues. On the first day of their two-day summit starting Thursday, EU leaders will examine a controversial plan from the European Commission to set up a new border and coast guard agency with powers to unilaterally deploy guards to countries in trouble.

The plan appears likely to face opposition by southern European nations hardest hit by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants to Europe this year, including Greece and Italy.