Stay tough against Cuban regime

Cuba has announced that it plans to release 52 incarcerated political dissenters. Spain, which mediated in the affair, immediately called on all EU states to relax their tough stances against the regime in Havana. For its part the business paper Hospodářské noviny urges caution: "It remains to be seen whether fundamental change is really coming to Cuba. For the time being there is not too much hope that Cuba will really become what has tragicomically been referred to as the 'island of freedom'. The released prisoners will not become citizens with equal rights. They are to be forced into exile. Another 110 prisoners at the very least will remain in their cells. ... So far it would seem [President Raul] Castro is no different from [Fidel] Castro. The EU should therefore stick to the hard line of the Czech Republic and other states and wait before it decides to oblige Havana as Spain has done."

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