“We can’t give in to the idea of ethnic replacement: the Italians are having fewer children and we’re replacing them with someone else. That is not the way,” Francesco Lollobrigida, Italy’s Agriculture Minister said.

Poland’s assertive move toward nuclear energy comes as its neighbor Germany announced last week that its last three remaining nuclear power plants would be shut down on April 15th.

“If we want to show solidarity, then we must restore the order at our borders, if needed by building fences where they are needed,” EPP spokesman Jeroen Lenaers said after pushing through an amendment to fund border walls, which was later thrown out by the Left with the entire package.

“I would ask you not to stigmatize those with a different identity or faith,” Hungarian MEP Tamás Deutch replied after PM Xavier Bettel accused Hungary of homophobia.

For now, NATO’s priority remains Ukraine’s “military victory over Russia,” the NATO Secretary General said.

The interior minister’s comments are reflective of what appears to be a growing anti-American sentiment across increasingly broad segments of the international community, including parts of Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.

“There are more battles to come,” conservative MEP Charlie Weimers noted, observing that the decision would prevent effective border control and enshrine migrant quotas in the new Asylum and Immigration Pact.

Campaigners say the Dutch government is hypocritical by financially supporting farmers abroad, while it takes the axe to its domestic agricultural industry.

Having failed to persuade Eastern members to undo their bans by questioning their “solidarity” with Kyiv, Brussels officials tried to win them over with cash.

The clandestine ‘police station’ is allegedly one of approximately 100 established across some 53 countries in the world, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and other countries.

As Moscow is expanding its trade and economic ties in Latin America, its proposed vision of the coming multipolar era is gaining traction there.

Brussels diplomats were left “surprised” and disappointed after the sector failed to form part of the Commission’s last sanctions package.