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Removed:U. whereas the April 2026 decision by the Cuban Government to grant pardons to more than 2 000 prisoners, the fifth such process since 2011, bringing the total number of beneficiaries to over 11 000, demonstrates that engagement and dialogue can produce concrete, positive outcomes; whereas this development stands in stark contrast to the failure of decades of US coercive pressure to bring about any improvement in the human rights situation or the living conditions of the Cuban people;

Added:3. Considers that the only way out of the hardship, poverty and isolation experienced by the Cuban people lies in profound economic and political changes leading without delay to a transition towards a full, multiparty democracy in which dissidents are not persecuted, imprisoned, tortured or murdered and in which fundamental rights and freedoms are respected through inclusive national dialogue towards that transition without restrictions;

Removed:V. whereas persistent and credible reports by UN experts and human rights organisations, and previous resolutions of the European Parliament, have documented serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law at the United States detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;

Added:4. Urges the Cuban regime to put forward sustainable and meaningful economic reforms that ensure legal certainty and support independent economic actors, private initiatives, investments and freedoms, as essential ways to avoid collapse;

Removed:1. Strongly condemns the United States’ blockade against Cuba as illegal, extraterritorial, inhumane and in direct violation of international law and the principles of the UN Charter; calls on the United States to immediately and unconditionally lift the embargo and all unilateral coercive measures against Cuba;

Added:5. Reiterates its previous positions regarding the activation of the PDCA’s suspension clause and calls on the VP/HR and the Member States to make clear that, unless clear, concrete and significant steps towards introducing such changes – including a clear proposal for a roadmap for democratic transition in Cuba, the immediate and unconditional release of the close to 1 300 political prisoners, and authorisation for Cubans forced to take the painful path of exile to return without reprisals – are taken in the short term, the EU should proceed without further delay to suspend the PDCA, which has been systematically breached by the Cuban regime;

Removed:2. Condemns in the strongest possible terms the executive measures issued by President Trump on 29 January 2026 and the secondary sanctions on 1 May 2026, which constitute an escalation of economic warfare against the Cuban people and a direct attack on European economic sovereignty;

Added:6. Calls for targeted measures under the EU Magnitsky Act against those responsible for repression, beginning with the most senior officials of the regime, including Miguel Díaz-Canel and the senior chain of command of the security, judicial and penitentiary apparatus, and against the leadership of GAESA;

Removed:3. Condemns in the strongest possible terms the comprehensive and escalating US blockade against Cuba as a strategy of deliberate collective deprivation that bears the hallmarks of a medieval siege; recalls that intentionally using starvation and deprivation as a political weapon against a civilian population is prohibited under international humanitarian law and constitutes a fundamental violation of human dignity; denounces the cynical use of the suffering of millions of Cuban men, women and children, including patients unable to access surgery, children in darkened schools, and families without water or food, as an instrument of geopolitical pressure; calls on the international community to name this policy for what it is: organised cruelty in violation of the most basic principles of international law and common humanity;

Added:7. Calls on the regime to abolish, in all its forms, the pre-criminal mechanisms used to silence and arbitrarily imprison citizens, and to release all those convicted under them without any crime having been committed;

Removed:4. Underlines that no country in the world, however resilient, can indefinitely withstand a total, comprehensive and inhumane blockade of the kind imposed and continuously tightened by the United States, which systematically deprives an entire population of fuel, medicines, food, financial access and the basic means of economic life; stresses that the accelerating deterioration of living conditions in Cuba today is the result of deliberate and escalating external economic aggression;

Added:8. Calls for an independent international investigation into prison conditions, the regime of forced malnutrition and deaths in custody;

Removed:5. Expresses full solidarity with the people of Cuba, who are suffering as the result of a very difficult economic and social situation, mainly as a consequence of impositions by foreign powers, which have been trying to put an end to its own model of development since 1 January 1959;

Added:9. Condemns the regime’s material support for Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, including the recruitment of Cuban nationals to fight against Ukraine, and its deepening military cooperation with Moscow, and insists that this be treated as a central element of the EU’s review of its relations with Cuba; condemns equally the regime’s alignment with the Lukashenka regime in Belarus, including the close military and security ties that undermine European security;

Removed:6. Condemns the re-inclusion of Cuba on the United States’ list of State Sponsors of Terrorism as a politically motivated designation lacking credible justification; calls for its immediate removal from that list; stresses that this measure has severe extraterritorial consequences, further worsening Cuba’s access to the international banking system, humanitarian supplies and medicines;

Added:10. Insists that independent civil society and the democratic opposition take part, without reprisals, in any dialogue under the PDCA – whose inclusion the agreement itself requires – and that the EU be in no way complicit in human-rights violations on the island, including the medical missions involving forced labour, which it demands the regime end in all its forms;

Removed:7. Rejects unequivocally the extraterritorial application of US sanctions against European companies and economic operators; calls for the EU institutions and Member States to take all necessary legal and diplomatic measures to protect European entities from the effects of these unlawful measures;

Added:11. Expresses its utmost and urgent concern over the dramatic deterioration of living conditions in Cuba and the growing humanitarian impact of the lack of access to fuel, medicines, food and other essential goods and public services, particularly affecting vulnerable groups; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop humanitarian channels delivering energy, food and medicine directly to the Cuban people and independent enterprises, bypassing the state, and calls on all donors to step up humanitarian aid, which must remain protected, free from state intermediation and never finance the regime;

Removed:8. Expresses serious concern at the pattern emerging from the application of US sanctions against Cuba, whereby European and other foreign companies are being forced out of Cuba’s tourism, real estate and strategic mining sectors through extraterritorial coercive measures in a manner that appears designed to favour US business interests connected to President Trump and his circle;

Added:12. Stands ready, together with the international community, to provide Cuba with substantial assistance through channels independent of the government while it embarks on a credible democratic transition, so that the island may become prosperous and guarantee the well-being of its citizens; calls on the VP/HR and the Member States to raise these cases consistently in all relevant forums and to support accountability and a peaceful, citizen-led transition;

Removed:9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to fully and consistently apply Council Regulation (EC) No 2271/96 and all relevant EU instruments in order to prevent any alignment by the EU and its economic operators with the United States’ unilateral and extraterritorial sanctions against Cuba, and to ensure that no European company is compelled to interrupt or reduce its legitimate commercial, financial or investment relations with the island as a consequence of such measures;

Added:13. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the rotating Presidency of the Council, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the EU Special Representative for Human Rights, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the Organization of American States, the United Nations, the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, and the Cuban regime.

Removed:10. Recalls that the US embargo against Cuba is illegal, extraterritorial and contrary to international law; recalls that the UN General Assembly voted against the embargo for the 33rd consecutive year in 2025, by 165 votes to 7, with 12 abstentions; calls for the EU and its Member States to go beyond their traditional support for the UN resolution and to translate that position into concrete diplomatic and economic action to bring the embargo to an end;

Removed:11. Rejects any attempt to exploit the difficult economic situation of the Cuban people in order to interfere in internal affairs; highlights that, according to Article 1 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966, ‘All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development’ without foreign interference; urges the EU and its Member States, therefore, to respect international law;

Removed:12. Condemns US pressure, threats of sanctions and economic coercion against sovereign governments in Latin America, including Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela, aimed at restricting fuel shipments, trade and economic cooperation with Cuba; denounces these extraterritorial practices as violations of the sovereignty of these countries and of their right to freely conduct trade and regional cooperation;

Removed:13. Denounces the devastating impact of US sanctions on Cuba’s access to fuel, electricity, medicines and essential goods; expresses grave concern at the worsening humanitarian situation, including prolonged blackouts of up to 20 hours per day in some areas, shortages affecting hospitals, transport, and water and food supplies, and the situation of more than 96 000 patients reportedly awaiting surgery due to reduced hospital capacity;

Removed:14. Calls on the international community and the EU to ensure the immediate delivery of the approximately 170 containers of humanitarian aid currently held back by fuel shortages, and to provide emergency support to Cuban health facilities, including paediatric hospitals currently operating under severe constraints;

Removed:15. Stresses that, in the light of the severe humanitarian and socioeconomic crisis in Cuba, which is dramatically aggravated by the United States’ economic, commercial and financial embargo and its extraterritorial effects, the EU has a clear humanitarian responsibility to support the Cuban people; calls, therefore, on the Commission, the European External Action Service and the Member States to increase emergency and longterm humanitarian assistance, to facilitate the delivery of fuel, food, medicines, medical equipment and essential goods, and to ensure that EU policies and instruments are fully mobilised to mitigate the human cost of the blockade and to uphold the fundamental rights and dignity of the Cuban population;

Removed:16. Calls for the cancellation of Cuba’s debt payments to the Member States, and, in particular, the members of the so-called Paris Club, to enable the Cuban authorities to better cope with the difficult economic situation and to compensate for the Member States ‘climate debt’;

Removed:17. Expresses deep concern at the findings of the 2025 Lancet Global Health study estimating that unilateral sanctions are associated with around 564 000 deaths annually, with children under five representing 51 % of these deaths; calls for an end to the US embargo and sanctions regime in the light of these findings;

Removed:18. Expresses concern at the disruption of education caused by electricity shortages, transport cuts and temporary school and university closures resulting from the US embargo and its restrictions on Cuba’s access to fuel, spare parts, equipment and external financing;

Removed:19. Welcomes solidarity initiatives with Cuba led from Caribbean and overseas territories aimed at breaking the humanitarian isolation imposed by the US blockade; stresses the importance of international solidarity in ensuring access to fuel, medicines, food and essential goods for the Cuban population;

Removed:20. Warns that weakened public services greatly increase the risk of preventable diseases and public health emergencies; notes with grave concern the risk of a resurgence of mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and oropouche in the whole Caribbean region, as noted by the Pan American Health Organization, a risk directly exacerbated by the US blockade;

Removed:21. Rejects US political pressure and visa restrictions aimed at undermining Cuban medical cooperation missions, which provide vital support to public health systems across Latin America and the Caribbean and in other countries, including in the EU;

Removed:22. Calls for the EU to defend health cooperation with Cuba and oppose US pressure on countries hosting Cuban medical brigades;

Removed:23. Recalls that any threat or use of force against Cuba would constitute a serious violation of the UN Charter and the principle of sovereignty; takes very seriously the increasingly aggressive rhetoric and signals from the Trump administration, including discussions in US policy circles about the possibility of military escalation and regime change; calls for the EU and its Member States to categorically reject any form of military intervention against Cuba;

Removed:24. Rejects any attempt by the US to use humanitarian hardship as leverage for regime change; reaffirms that positive change can only be promoted through genuine dialogue, cooperation and mutual respect, not through coercion and collective punishment; stresses that dialogue with Cuba must be conducted through diplomacy, not through intelligence pressure or threats;

Removed:25. Stresses the importance of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement as a key tool to promote understanding and mutually beneficial relations between the EU and Cuba; reaffirms its full support for the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Cuba as an essential framework for dialogue, cooperation and mutual respect; firmly rejects attempts to undermine this agreement through external pressure, unilateral sanctions or policies of isolation;

Removed:26. Welcomes the decision of the Cuban Government to grant pardons to more than 2 000 prisoners in April 2026, bringing the total number of beneficiaries of such processes since 2011 to over 11 000; underlines that this development is a direct result of sustained diplomatic engagement and dialogue; reaffirms its conviction that constructive cooperation, not coercion, isolation or economic warfare, is the only path capable of generating genuine and lasting improvements in the human rights situation and living conditions of the Cuban people; calls on all parties to pursue dialogue as the primary instrument of change;

Removed:27. Calls on the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the Member States to defend the EU’s autonomous foreign policy and to firmly reject any attempt by the US administration to weaponise economic coercion, undermine multilateralism or dictate European foreign policy orientations; calls on them to openly call on the US administration to immediately end the inhumane blockade against Cuba;

Removed:28. Condemns in the strongest possible terms the ongoing operation of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and the grave human rights violations, including torture and illtreatment, committed there in violation of international law; reiterates its call on the US authorities to close the facility without further delay, to end the practice of indefinite detention without fair trial, to ensure full accountability for past abuses, and to provide effective remedies and reparations to all victims;

Removed:29. Calls for the EU and its Member States to take note of and actively support the international civil society solidarity campaigns, and to amplify voices calling for an end to the blockade and for the respect of Cuban sovereignty;

Removed:30. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the Government and National Assembly of the Republic of Cuba, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and the Government of the United States of America.