Just when you think that the EU’s foreign policy can stoop no lower, something like this happens:

“European Union plans to ban Cuban dissidents from national day receptions at EU embassies in Havana has sparked a diplomatic battle, officials said yesterday. Such a ban would bow to an explicit demand from the regime of Fidel Castro. Under a Spanish proposal that will be put to foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday, EU embassies in Havana, including Britain’s, would be advised not to invite dissidents to national day receptions.

Vaclav Havel is outraged, as we all should be.