The European Parliament has called on the Council of the European Union to use the EU’s so-called ‘Magnitsky law’ regime as soon as possible to adopt sanctions against those responsible for human rights violations in Cuba, in a joint resolution by the EPP, Renew Europe, and ECR groups adopted on Thursday 16 September by a comfortable majority (426 votes in favour, 146 against and 115 abstentions).
Leopoldo López Gil (EPP) called on the EU to stop “this farce” of maintaining the...