6-29-06,9:22 am

Havana, June 23 (Prensa Latina) Cuba condemned the European Union for its lackey attitude toward hostile US Cuban policy and said their alliance lacks moral authority and capacity to impose conditions.

In an editorial published Friday, Granma analyzed the recent EU-US summit in Vienna, saying the power of Washington´s cronies is not enough to impose on Cuba what the 'Empire' has been unable to do itself.

The US and its European allies, once more, have made themselves into international judges and take pleasure in invading other sovereign nations, dictating policies and filling the White House´s black list, said the daily.

The greatest scandal is that they ignore the critical situation of prisoners illegally held at the Naval Base in the Cuban province of Guantanamo, it contends.

Granma said they failed to mention the hundreds of clandestine US flights to render blind-folded drugged-prisoners across Europe, with stopovers in various states.

According to the newspaper, some days before the summit, European officials had asserted they would request that US President George W Bush shut down the detention and torture camp at Guantanamo.

But when he showed up, their enthusiasm vanished and it was Bush who referred to the issue, it added.

The daily made it clear that Bush was totally wishy-washy on the issue and incredibly, the Europeans only said 'we should not be naive against the new threat of terrorism.'

In 2005, the EU precluded the Human Rights Commission from investigating into flagrant and continuous human rights violations at that naval base.

The news in this summit is that the ancient policy of subordination and double standards has become official in the EU, and 'all of Europe has cowardly yielded to US dictates,' it said.

Granma assured issues such as energy cooperation, the US economic, financial and commercial blockade of Cuba and its extraterritorial implementation in Europe, the unjust imprisonment of The Five and the sanctuary created for notorious terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in the US were left out of the agenda in Vienna.

Cuba is not surprised about the submissive stance of the European Union, which has been strongly criticized in some countries and constitutes an example of a critical crisis of legitimacy and identity.

Today, more than ever, it is weaker and more servile to the US, Granma concluded.