Just as you’d expect from two unelected unwanted dictatorships, the EU is cuddling up to Cuba. You know, the same Cuba voted a few months ago as 7th Happiest Place To Live – a fact neatly explaining the hordes of Cubans trying to leave the place on converted lorries, surfboards and bathtubs.

Anyway, yesterday European Commissioner for Foreign Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner arrived in Havana for discussions on relations between the EU and Cuba, local media reported.

The European Union resumed diplomatic ties with Cuba last autumn after they were suspended in 2003 following a series of arrests of dissidents.

“It is expected that the European commissioner will discuss relations between Cuba and the European Commission and also some other international policy matters with the [Cuban] authorities,” Granma newspaper reported on Thursday.

Cuba has said it was ready to have a dialogue with EU, though questions on Cuban justice system could not be discussed as they are “an internal affair”. Yep, and so were those holiday camps built by the Nazis and the nice salt mines Stalin dug. He even threw in “internal” snow for those too as a sort of festive effect.

European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Louis Michel visited Havana in March and said it was the right time for political dialogue between the EU and Cuba.

The visit to Cuba wraps up Ferrero-Waldner’s Latin American trip, which included stops in Mexico and Argentina.

In Buenos Aires, she called for “a deepening of the political dialogue” with Cuba, adding that Havana is making “positive steps” in this direction, Latin American media reported.

Ferrero-Waldner pointed to food security, trade, the environment and technological research as areas of bilateral cooperation with Cuba.

TheEye points to poverty, tyranny, brainwashing and a propaganda coup for the ageing Castro brothers.

It’s about time we were given an in-or-out vote on the EU. Deals with Cuba? Not in my name.