ZAGREB, Croatia — European Union ministers agreed Tuesday to relocate 120,000 migrants in a move intended to ease the strain on nations like Greece and Italy that are on the front line of the continent's migrant crisis.
The ministers who often reach decisions by consensus had to put the plan to a vote.
Milan Chovanec, the Czech interior minister, tweeted that the proposal was approved but that the Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians and Hungarians voted against it and Finland abstained.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve called the agreement "an important step" that was approved by a "crushing majority" of the 28 ministers present.
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said his country would take more than 30,000 people.
De Maziere said the deal also aims to cut "secondary migration," in which people move from one country to another within Europe.
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