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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Lisa O'Carroll Brussels correspondent

EU agrees radical reforms on migration and asylum laws

Discarded lifejackets
Life jackets on the beach near the Libyan port of al-Khums. Austrian negotiators urged other EU states to end the tragedy in the Mediterranean. Photograph: Hussein Ben Mosa/AP

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”.

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