EU-Cuba agreement: A path to human rights and democracy?

The European Union has welcomed the agreement between US and Cuba to re-establish diplomatic relations, a move which matches with its own approach to Cuba.

EU and Cuban officials have made “substantial progress” towards agreeing a trade and political co-operation treaty.

EU foreign ministers have agreed to open talks on a trade and political relationship with Cuba, raising the prospect of a new era in relations between Brussels and Havana.

In an interview with the EUobserver at his home in Havana, last year’s winner of the Sakharov prize, Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, explains why he is not able to travel to Europe, the state of political prisoners and the myth surrounding Cuban communism. This year's short-list for the Sakharov prize will be published by the European Parliament today.

The size of the sharing economy has doubled between 2014 and 2015, according to the European Commission. Along with it are new business models that EU legislation have yet to keep up with.

The EU's Common Fisheries Policy has all the provisions needed for Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements to successfully work as a "'race to the top' rather than to the bottom, argues former MEP Isabella Lövin.