Should the EU’s atom-sized sanctions on Cuba be lifted?

Why not? They do not matter, as they are a Silly Noise unattached to a policy.

The debate of course is not about whether these sanctions make a difference, symbolic or otherwise. It rather is about whether the EU should have a clear policy on regime change in Cuba.

The EU has no such policy. It does not call unambiguously for free and fair elections in Cuba, or do anything active and purposeful to support the pro-democracy forces there help secure a better future for their country.

Whereas the USA does.

Why does anyone think that an EU Foreign Minister as supported by an EU External Action Service will do anything other than give even more weight and respectability to collective spinelessness?

It’s worse than that. By expecting that EU member states’ policies be ‘compatible’ with collective positions, the aim of EU federalists is to dumb down the effectiveness and capacity of those member states willing to take some risks and commit resources in a situation like this.

The failure of the Labour Government to break free of the Guardianista Castrovian sentimentalists in its ranks and instead join the Czechs and Poles in press hard for democracy in Cuba is one of the first things a new government in London needs to put right on the foreign policy front…

Bring it on.