The European Union has proposed a new plan to resettle 160,000 refugees as hundreds of thousands of people fleeing violence and war in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Eritrea and other countries have arrived on Europe’s shores this year. The new plan still has to be approved by the majority of EU governments. Germany, France, Spain and Italy have already expressed approval of the plan, although German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the plan does not go far enough. The United Nations is now estimating at least 850,000 people are expected to cross the Mediterranean this year and next.