Sweden will need support from EU for refugees

Sweden wants to apply for emergency assistance from the European Union to assist with the large influx of asylum seekers in the country.

" The situation is extremely tense ", said the labor minister, Ylva Johansson. " We have decided that the Swedish Migration Agency EU funds and emergency requests from the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund. "

The agency predicts that this year 190 000 asylum-seekers coming to Sweden, doubling the record from the beginning of the nineties.

Sweden has asked the EU to move some of the refugees to other countries.