European Council President Donald Tusk (R) speaks with Italy's Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni prior to a debate on the conclusions of the European Council of 9 and 10 March, including the Rome Declaration, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on March 15, 2017. EU chiefs on March 15 blasted Turkey's Nazi comparisons with the Netherlands and Germany as "detached from reality" and incompatible with its ambitions to join the bloc. / AFP PHOTO / FREDERICK FLORIN