EU agrees radical reforms on migration and asylum laws

After years of infighting, 27-state bloc sets out new policies including charge of 20,000 a head for members that refuse to take refugees

The EU has agreed radical reforms of its migration and asylum laws including charges of 20,000 (17,200) per head for member countries that refuse to host refugees.

After almost 12 hours of intense negotiations in Luxembourg, and years of fighting, interior ministers struck a deal on Thursday on what they described as a historical" new approach to what one politician described as an often toxic topic".