The European Commission plans to impose fines on countries that refuse to take refugees under revised EU asylum laws to be put forward on May 4. The proposed refugee plans maintain the guiding principle of the current system, under which the country where migrants first step into the EU must deal with asylum applications. But the new plan proposes that when a country at the EU’s external border is overwhelmed, asylum seekers may be distributed across the continent. The amount of the fine for countries refusing to take part is said to be €250,000 per refugee.