BRUSSELS: The European Union has eventually approved a plan to distribute 120, 000 refugees in its 28 countries, suppressing intense opposition from four ex-communist eastern nations.
The European Commission had proposed the scheme with the support of other big powers to settle down refugee crisis in the continent.
The decision in Brussels has caused and evident rift between older and newer nations. The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary voted against the plan at a meeting in Brussels, with Finland abstaining.
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“We would have preferred a consensus but we could not reach that, and it is not for want of trying,” Luxembourg Interior Minister Jean Asselborn, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the EU, told a news conference.
