LEFT-GREEN MEPs pressed the European Union’s foreign policy chief on Tuesday night to pursue “equal and fair” relations with Cuba.
EU high representative for foreign affairs and security Federica Mogherini attended a debate on the EU-Cuba political and co-operation agreement.
European United Left/Nordic Green Left MEP Sofia Sakorafa said relations with Cuba should be “guided by the principles of reciprocity and co-operation without conditions or discrimination.”
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On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
While ordinary Americans were suffering in the wake of 2005’s deadly hurricane, the Bush administration was more concerned with maintaining its anti-Cuba stance than with saving lives, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS


