RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Race for battery NiStratochief The EU position is quite clear. If USA does not want the nickel, the EU and surely China will have no problem buying it for internal use.
>>>“The EU is Cuba’s top commercial partner and investor, and we have tripled cooperation in the last two years,” Mogherini, the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, told a news conference with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-eu-idUSKCN1VU2BY
>>>Now, tighter measures, including massive claims for damages and denial of US visas, are increasingly threatening European businesspeople, says the EU's envoy to Cuba, Alberto Navarro from Spain."We consider the extraterritorial use of US sanction illegal and a violation of international law," Navarro told DW....The EU has strongly criticized Chapter 3, which gives US nationals with claims to confiscated property in Cuba the right to file suit in US courts against anyone in hold of or trading in that property.
https://www.france24.com/en/20190417-cuba-sanctions-trump-eu-opposition-economy-business-usa
https://www.dw.com/en/us-sanctions-against-cuba-keep-europe-puzzled/a-52430829
>>>The EU and Canada issued a joint warning against the United States on Wednesday after Washington said it would allow US lawsuits against foreign investments in Cuba. "The EU and Canada consider the extraterritorial application of unilateral Cuba-related measures contrary to international law," the EU's foreign affairs supremo Federica Mogherini and Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said in a statement that was also signed by Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland.