The agreement was reached in Brussels on Tuesday despite fierce opposition from some central and eastern states that deepened rifts over Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the plan had been approved by a "crushing majority".
"This decision is testament to the capacity of Europe to take responsibility and progress," he said.
Hungary, the Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia all voted against the plan to share the intake of refugees, while Finland abstained.
"We will soon realise that the emperor has no clothes. Common sense lost today," Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec tweeted after the vote.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said pushing through the quota system had "nonsensically" caused a deep rift over a highly sensitive issue and that, "as long as I am prime minister", Slovakia would not implement a quota...
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EU has taken responsibility for refugees - Hollande...
ReplyDeleteEurope has shouldered responsibility for the wave of refugees and migrants reaching its shores, French President Francois Hollande said.
"Europe has taken on its responsibilities. It has been able to do this but with conditions and with rules, and that is what France has called for," Mr Hollande said.
Europe has been struggling to coordinate a united response to an unprecedented influx of migrants and refugees from war-torn countries such as Syria......http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0922/729430-migrants-eu-meeting/