Record Numbers of Refugees Arrive in Europe in 2015

Footage released by the United Nations on July 7 shows some of the record 137,000 refugees who crossed the Mediterranean in the first six months of 2015 to seek refugee in the EU. In a report issued on July 1, the UN Refugee Agency said that the number of people seeking refuge in the EU had jumped by 83 of the same time period a year previously. The report called the situation a “maritime refugee crisis of historic proportions.” Credit: YouTube/United Nations