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Police officers organize groups of migrants after they arrive from Croatia in Sredisce ob Dravi, Slovenia, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015. Hungary shut down its border with Croatia to the free flow of migrants, prompting Croatia to redirect thousands of people toward its border with Slovenia. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Thousands stranded on new migrant route through Europe

By RADUL RADOVANOVIC - Associated Press

Max Schrems, left, and his lawyer Herwig Hofmann, right, walk in the hallway at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. Europe's highest court has ruled in favor of an Austrian law student who claims a trans-Atlantic data protection agreement doesn't adequately protect consumers. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

‘Safe Harbor’ data deal between EU and U.S. deemed invalid by high court

By Andrew Blake and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, FC Barcelona's supporters hold &quot;estelada” flags, that symbolise Catalonia's independence, during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between FC Barcelona and Levante at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain. Sports and politics are never far apart in Barcelona’s Camp Nou football stadium. Moments after fans emitted a collective sigh last weekend over a narrowly missed strike by Lionel Messi, the chants rang through the stadium as they always do at the 17th minute of a home game: INDEPENDENCIA! INDEPENDENCIA! INDEPENDENCIA! (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

EDITORIAL: Homage to Catalonia, with caveats

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration on Serbia's role in world peace by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

ALEKSANDAR VUCIC: Toward a strengthened Serbian-American partnership

By Aleksandar Vucic

Razor wire is photographed during the installation of a temporary fence at the border between Hungary and Croatia near Magyarboly, 218 kms south of Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015. (Janos Marjai/MTI via AP)

Hungary close to completing fence on Croatian border to stem flow of migrants

By Pablo Gorondi and Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Illustration on the dangers to Europe from the refugee wave by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

JED BABBIN: Why Europe is losing the refugee war

By Jed Babbin

People wait in line in order to get into a reception center for migrants and refugees in Opatovac, Croatia, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Deeply-divided EU to hold emergency summit on migrant crisis

By Lorne Cook and John-Thor Dahlburg - Associated Press

Hungarian soldiers work on a fence that is being built at the border with Croatia, near the village of Beremend, Hungary, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015. Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orban said that millions of migrants are &quot;laying siege&quot; to the borders of his country and of Europe, putting the continent in danger. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

EU ministers agree to relocate 120,000 migrants

By Danica Kirka and Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

Migrants arrive from Munich at Schoenefeld train station near Berlin, Sunday Sept. 13, 2015. ( Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

EU ministers discuss sharing refugees among nations

By Lorne Cook and Raf Casert - Associated Press

"I'm happy that Germany has become a country that many people abroad associate with hope," German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters during a press conference this week in Berlin, shortly before announcing her government would spend an additional $6.7 billion to deal with the influx. "That is something very valuable, especially in view of our history." (Associated Press)

Angela Merkel welcomes refugees to Germany despite rising anti-immigrant movement

By Mihret Yohannes - Special to The Washington Times

Wissam Ahmed, from Iraq, left, and other refugees arrive after an overnight bus trip from Germany, in Champagne-sur-Seine, south of Paris, France, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, the first among around 1,000 that French President Francois Hollande pledged to receive from the neighboring country. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

EU seeks agreement for countries to share 160,000 refugees

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

A migrant enters the territory of Hungary by crossing the temporary protection fence along the Hungarian-Serbian border at Roszke, 180 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. (Edvard Molnar/MTI via AP)

Migrants keep entering Hungary as work on fence speeds up

By Balint Szlanko and Pablo Gorondi - Associated Press

A father carries his child as they arrive at the main train station in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. Hundreds of refugees arrived in various trains to get first registration as asylum seekers in Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Exhaustion, elation as 6,500 migrants reach Austria, Germany

By Shawn Pogatchnik and Pablo Gorondi - Associated Press

Migrants shout slogans in front of the Keleti Railway Station in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, as hundreds demanded to be let on trains to Germany. Over 150,000 migrants have reached Hungary this year, most coming through the southern border with Serbia. Many apply for asylum but quickly try to leave for richer EU countries. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Hungary blocks migrants from trains; 11 drown off Turkey

By Shawn Pogatchnik - Associated Press

EU Immigration Beaker Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

CAL THOMAS: Will migrants flooding Europe embrace Western values?

By Cal Thomas

A Macedonian police officer blocks migrants in no-man's land between Greece and Macedonia near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Wave of EU-bound migrants cross to Serbia from Macedonia

Associated Press

Razor wire marks the border between Hungary and Serbia, but officials are planning to erect a 109-mile-long, 13-foot-tall fence. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump border wall proposal sparks controversy, but barriers are popular worldwide

By Andrew Nachemson - The Washington Times

Illustration on the false growth of stimulus economies by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

J.T. YOUNG: Time to try real economic reform

By J.T. Young

This Dec. 18, 2014, file photo, shows a Sony Pictures Entertainment studio lot entrance from Culver Blvd. in Culver City, Calif. The European Union announced Thursday, July 23, 2015, that it has opened an antitrust case against six major U.S. movie studios, including Sony, for what it sees as a restriction of trade within the 28-nation bloc because consumers outside Britain and Ireland are prevented from tapping into their products through Sky UK. The other studios include Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

EU opens antitrust case against 6 major U.S. movie studios

Associated Press

$Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrives for the final plenary meeting at the United Nations building in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, July 14, 2015. After 18 days of intense and often fractious negotiation, diplomats Tuesday declared that world powers and Iran had struck a landmark deal to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions, an agreement designed to avert the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran and another U.S. military intervention in the Muslim world. (Joe Klamar/Pool Photo via AP)$

STEVEN ROSEN: Obama gave Europe control of the Iran sanctions ‘snap back’ mechanism

By Steven Rosen