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Tuesday 22 Sep 2015 - 23:04 Makkah mean time-9-12-1436
 Brussels (IINA) - European Union interior ministers have reached a deal to share out 120,000 refugees across the EU bloc after holding an emergency meeting.
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 realize 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. The deal mandates that countries in the EU take a share of thousands of new arrivals of refugees from the Middle East, Asia and Africa, who are currently in frontline EU states like Greece and Italy. The ministers were under pressure to reach a deal that could be ratified by EU leaders at a crisis summit on Wednesday, but in a rare step for a bloc that is keen to show a united front, the agreement was by a majority vote instead of unanimity.
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