Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico has said he would rather risk infringing EU rules than implement mandatory refugee quotas, the AFP news agency is reporting. 

"I would rather go to an infringement against the Slovak Republic than to respect this diktat of the majority, which was unable to push through its opinion using rational arguments and reach a consensus within the EU," Mr Fico told the Slovak TA3 news channel, according to the agency. 

The BBC's Orla Guerin is at the Opatovac transit camp in Croatia, the scene of unrest earlier today.

European President Martin Schulz calls the deal "an important first step".

No EU member state has the right to refuse a decision approved by the majority (although the Slovak PM claims that he will - see 17.24). 

They do have the right to appeal against the decision however, and the Czech Republic is planning to do exactly that, Luxembourg's foreign minister Jean Asselborn told reporters. 

The nation will have to take their case to the European Court of Justice, but they will have a fight on their hands, Mr Asselborn said.

"The Commission and those that must defend the treaties will take this on," he said.

Frans Timmermans, the vice president of the European Commission, said that the dissenting countries had agreed to a vote and must accept the outcome of that vote. 

"We know that some member states were not in favour of the proposal but those member states said we will have the vote," Mr Timmermans said. 

"What anyone voted around the table is no longer relevant once you have a decision ... we will make sure that the decision is implemented."

Peter Sutherland, the United Nations Special Representative for International Migration, has called on every member state to participate.

His comments may be directed at those who voted against the proposals and who have since indicated they are not willing to accept the decision.

The European Conservatives and Reformists Group, a group of MEPs founded by the UK Conservative Party, claims that Tuesday's divisive vote risks "alienating major European states makes finding common solutions even harder."

Timothy Kirkhope, a spokesman for the group, said:

More than half a million people have claimed asylum in the EU in 2015, 40% of those in Germany. Read more here.

The first of 20,000 Syrian refugees to be taken in by the UK over the next five years have arrived in the country.

Here's what the British Home Office said: 

Announcing the move last month, British PM David Cameron said the UK had a "moral responsibility" to help those living in camps bordering Syria. He said refugees accepted by Britain would come from camps - not those who are already in Europe.

Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec, who voted against the relocation proposal, is making his feelings about the result clear on Twitter, complete with an unsmiley face.

"Very soon we will find out that the emperor is naked. Common sense lost today!"

The plan just adopted by EU interior ministers may not be the full proposals by European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker, tweets the FT's Henry Foy. Watch this space.

EU interior ministers have voted in favour of a plan to relocate 120,000 refugees from Italy, Greece and Hungary to other members states.

The "large majority" voted for the proposal, the EU's Luxembourg presidency said on Twitter, overcoming opposition from Slovakia, Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec Tweeted: "We, Slovaks, Romanians, Hungarians against, and Finland abstained. The resolution was accepted."

Hungary, which objects to EU proposals to distribute refugees among member states and is closing off its borders, has attempted to address the influx of migrants at, or at least nearer to, the source. 

Hungarian authorities took out a full page ad in Lebanese newspapers Monday warning "illegal immigrants" that crossing into the country is "punishable by imprisonment".

Channel 4 reports on the refugees and migrants sleeping in a cemetery near the Serbian border.

Ondrej Houska, a Czech radio correspondent in Brussels, says the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania - all critics of the proposed quota plan - are likely to be outvoted by other EU members at the summit.

Ministers are meeting today to discuss a proposal to resettle 120,000 refugees around the EU.

Hundreds of asylum-seekers are camped out in the Turkish city of Edirne, about 8km (5 miles) from the Greek border, hoping for an agreement in Brussels that will allow them into the EU.

The local governor has implored the migrants to move, according to the BBC's Mark Lowen, but they are refusing to budge.

Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic has urged Serbia to start directing migrants towards Hungary and Romania to help ease the burden on his own country. 

Hungary sealed its border with Serbia earlier this month, after which Serbia began directing migrants towards the border with Croatia. 

 "We are not fools, we see what they (Serbia) are doing," Mr Milanovic told reporters.

The BBC's Anna Holligan is on the Hungary-Croatia border, where the Hungarians are extending a fence to stop migrants crossing. The border remains partially open.

The BBC's Gavin Lee tweets a picture of Dara, a bank manager who fled Damascus and has now been reunited with his sister in Germany.