ROME (AP) -- The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local): 4:10 p.m. European Union lawmakers have agreed that Sweden deserves an extra year to take in asylum-seekers under a plan agreed last year to share out tens of thousands. The agreement in September was to distribute 160,000 refugees currently in overwhelmed Greece and Italy among other EU partners over the next two years. Sweden was to take in some 5,700 people. But the EU lawmakers voted by 396 to 190, with 50 abstentions, to grant more time because Sweden already has the EUs highest per-capita rate of asylum applicants. The relocation plan has struggled to get off the ground,...
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