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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during an international press conference in the Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary Tuesday, April 10, 2018, two days after his Fidesz party in coalition with the Christian Democratic Party won a landslide vitory in the general elections. (Lajos Soos/MTI via AP)

EDITORIAL: Viktor Orban of Hungary smites the Brussels bureaucrats

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this Wednesday, April 11, 2018, photo, childhood Holocaust survivors Simon Gronowski, center right, and Alice Gerstel Weit hold hands as they tour the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum. After the Nazis invaded Belgium, they hid together in the Gronowski family's home before the Gerstel family fled on a perilous journey that eventually led them to the United States. Gronowski's family stayed behind, and his mother and sister died at Auschwitz. For 76 years Gerstel Weit didn't know Gronowski was the family's only survivor. Her son Dann Netter is at left; his grandson Romain De Nys at right. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Childhood Holocaust survivors reunited after 76 years

By John Rogers - Associated Press

British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks with the media as she arrives for an EU summit at the Europa building in Brussels on Friday, March 23, 2018. Leaders from the 28 European Union nations meet for a second day of an EU summit to assess the state of Brexit negotiations and the prospect of a trade war with the United States. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU nations to take more action against Russia over spy

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks with the media as she arrives for an EU summit at the Europa building in Brussels on Thursday, March 22, 2018. Leaders from the 28 European Union nations meet for a two-day summit to assess the state of Brexit negotiations, the prospect of a trade war with the United States and how to react to Russia following to the nerve agent attack in Britain. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

EU leaders back Britain in blaming Russia over spy poisoning

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

Russian ambassador Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko speaking at a news conference Thursday March 22, 2018, at his country's embassy in London in the aftermath of the Salisbury nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Ahead of the press conference the Russian embassy said its consular services had been &quot;seriously affected&quot; by the diplomatic row with the British Government, and it would be limiting visitors as a result. (Kirsty O'Connor/PA via AP)

The Latest: EU recalls envoy for consultations on spy attack

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A police car is parked at the British Consulate General, in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, March 17, 2018. Russia on Saturday announced it is expelling 23 British diplomats and threatened further measures in retaliation in a growing diplomatic dispute over a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

The Latest: German, Polish leaders back UK after poisoning

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European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstroem, center, Japanese Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko, right, and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, pose for photographers prior to a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on Saturday, March 10, 2018. The EU is still seeking clarity from Washington about whether the 28-nation bloc will be exempt from U.S. President Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs. (Stephanie Lecocq, Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest: No steel tariff exemption for EU granted yet

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President of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU-Sahel meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on Friday, Feb. 23, 2018. European Union leaders meet Friday with counterparts from Africa's Sahel in a show of support for the impoverished region fallen prey to extremists and a key transit point for migrants heading to Europe. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Donors pledge $510 million for West Africa anti-terror force

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, shakes hands with U.S. Secretary for Defense Jim Mattis prior to a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. NATO defense ministers begin a two-day meeting Wednesday to focus on military spending, cooperation with the European Union, and assistance to the Iraqi army. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, Pool)

NATO chief urges defense budget hike amid command expansion

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

Belgian judge Marie-France Keutgen presides over the trial of Salah Abdeslam at the Brussels Justice Palace in Brussels on Monday, Feb. 5, 2018. Salah Abdeslam and Soufiane Ayari face trial for taking part in a shooting incident in Vorst, Belgium on March 15, 2016. The incident took place when six members of a Franco-Belgian research team investigating the attacks in Paris were conducting a search in an allegedly empty safe house of the terrorists and were attacked. (Danny Gys, Pool Photo via AP)

Salah Abdeslam, Paris attacks suspect, refuses to stand at shootout trial

By Lori Hinnant - Associated Press

A man who escaped unharmed picks up his gloves after his scooter was hit by a crashing tree uprooted by heavy winds in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. Scores of flights and trains were cancelled in The Netherlands and drivers were warned to stay off the roads as the country took a powerfull hit of a storm which was set to lash large parts of Europe. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Powerful gale lashes Europe, 7 dead amid traffic chaos

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

A Serbian flag and a picture of assassined Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic are seen on his office in the northern, Serb-dominated part of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. Ivanovic was shot and killed Tuesday morning, raising ethnic tensions in the region and halting EU-mediated talks between Kosovo and Serbia on the day they were due to resume. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic)

The Latest: Kosovo assures safety after Serb leader’s death

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FILE - In this March 25, 2016 file still image from video, Mason Wells, an American survivor of the attacks in Belgium, answers questions during an interview in a hospital in Ghent, Belgium. Wells also was in Boston at the time of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, having gone to support his mother during her race. On Friday, Dec. 15, 2017, the 20-year-old missionary from Sandy, Utah, released a video addressing the attackers, where he said, &quot;But I have chosen to forgive you. I have learned that the decision to forgive is ours and ours alone.&quot; (Pool TV via AP, File)

2-time terror survivor’s message to attackers: I forgive you

By WILLIAM J. KOLE - Associated Press

European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini, right, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after participating in a media conference at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Israel urges EU to back U.S. Mideast peace moves

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

A Visitor walks by an installation by Haitian artist Jean Ulrick Desert, titled The Burqa Project-On The Borders of My Dreams I Encountered My Double's Ghost for an exhibition &quot;Islam, It's Also Our History&quot; at the Espace Vanderborght in Brussels on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. The exhibition tackles the legacy that Islamic civilization has had on Europe left by 13 centuries of Muslim presence on European soil. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Brussels exhibit tackles Islam in city scarred by terror

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Belgium's David Goffin, left, speaks during a press conference prior to a Davis Cup World Group tennis semi-final in Brussels, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. Belgium plays a semi-final against Australia beginning Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

France favorite to reach Davis Cup final despite poor form

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Brussels troops stop alleged attacker; media says he’s shot

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Police secure a scene in downtown Brussels after a reported knife attack on Belgian Army soldiers on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. Belgium's anti-terror crisis center says soldiers have &quot;neutralized&quot; a man in downtown Brussels, amid media reports that the man may have been shot after attacking troops with a knife. (AP Photo/Sylvain Plazy)

The Latest: Brussels troops shoot dead a knife attacker

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A police vehicle blocks a road in front of a bomb disposal robot in the Molenbeek suburb of Brussels, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017. Brussels police say that they opened fire on a vehicle after a high-speed chase in the suburb of Molenbeek and the driver told officers there are explosives inside. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Bomb disposal team arrives after Brussels police fire at car

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Protesters carry depictions of razor wire along the border separating two Spanish enclaves from relentless waves of migrants seeking to escape from the desperate poverty, terrorist violence, criminal bureaucracy and chaos of their sub-Saharan and North African countries. (Associated Press/File)

Italy considers emergency visas to ease migrant strain

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press