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Eastern European states furious with EU refugee quotas

by Our Foreign Desk

EUROPEAN Union leaders held an emergency summit yesterday to try to paper over the deep divisions that have emerged over the bloc’s refugee crisis.

On Tuesday, the 28-nation EU took a step toward dealing with the issue by agreeing to relocate 120,000 refugees, using a quota system to allocate numbers and eventual destination countries.

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