Following failed talks last week, European Union (EU) interior ministers hoped on Tuesday to reach an agreement over the ongoing refugee crisis.

Speaking in Berlin on Monday, German interior minister Thomas de Maiziere said Europe needed to agree on a "generous quota" so that the bloc could "fulfill its humanitarian obligations."

Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic have all rejected the plan to spread refugees around the EU.

Ahead of the meeting on Tuesday, UN's refugee agency UNHCR said a relocation program alone, "will not be enough to stabilize the situation."

The agency said the EU must agree this week to take in another 120,000 refugees and migrants "for any relocation program to be credible."

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