Spain’s communist Government – unfortunately the current holders of European Union’s rotating presidency, want the EU to go forward with improving relations with communist Cuba, despite a row after Havana’s refusal to grant entry to a Spanish member of the European Parliament.

“Isolation, blockage and embargo (against Cuba) do not lead to anything. They have not given any results in 50 years,” Spain’s Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said, according to monstersandcritics.com.

Moratinos made the comments while a secretary of state for Ibero-American affairs was meeting with the Cuban ambassador over the case of Luis Yanez, a member of the European Parliament who was barred entry at Havana airport on Monday. Juan Pablo de Laiglesia told Cuban ambassador Alejandro Gonzalez Galiano that Madrid hoped not to see more similar incidents, which did not favour developing bilateral relations.

Moratinos said Cuba had “made a mistake”, but that Spain would not change its plans to modify the EU’s 1996 common position on Cuba, which links relations to democracy and respect for human rights on the Caribbean island.

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