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Disputed EU migrant plan voted in



European interior ministers have agreed a deal to relocate 120,000 migrants across the continent in a vote passed by a significant majority.

Under the plan, migrants will be moved from Italy, Greece and Hungary to other countries in the EU.

Four Central European countries voted against mandatory quotas.
But a large majority of EU member states backed the plan, which will take effect over the next two years.

The BBC's Brussels correspondent Chris Morris said it was "highly unusual for an issue like this - which involves national sovereignty - to be decided by majority vote rather than unanimous decision".