At the end of January, the Council of the European Union (the main decision-making body of the European Union or EU) suspended diplomatic sanctions against Cuba and decided to resume high-level relations with the Castro government, thus ending its long-held policy to speak only with Cuban dissidents. Are these changes helping or weakening the Cuban regime? What is the EU's purpose in changing its policies? Does the new policy conflict with the EU's commitment to human rights and democracy abroad? Discussing these and other questions will be Arlette Conzemius, ambassador of Luxembourg, who will speak on behalf of the EU's presidency; Mark Falcoff, a resident scholar emeritus at AEI; Maria C. Werlau, president of the Free Society Project; and Frank Calzon, executive director of the Center for a Free Cuba. NAI executive director Radek Sikorski, who has just retuned from Cuba, will moderate.