Police organize a line of refugees on a stairway leading up to trains arriving from Denmark at the Hyllie train station outside Malmo, Sweden, November 19, 2015. SWEDENREUTERS/Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency/File Photo
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The European Union has the capacity to absorb a million refugees a year, and could force through new asylum rules by majority voting if consensus cannot be reached, Sweden's migration minister said in an interview on Friday.
"Europe as a continent must bear its responsibility for the global refugee crisis," said Morgan Johansson, minister for justice and migration in the centre-left government.
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