In the event that Title III of the Helms Burton Act is applied, the European Union (EU) has endowed itself with antidote legislation, a Council regulation that ensures the protection of its citizens and entrepreneurs, Alberto Navarro, EU ambassador to Cuba, explained in Havana.

Cuba and Angola need to expand their economic and trade relations to the level of those existing in the political and diplomatic fields, senior officials of the two countries said in a meeting held in Luanda, capital of the African country.

The Italian banking company UniCredit Group joined the entities of several countries punished by the U.S. government for allegedly violating sanctions imposed by Washington against Cuba and other countries.

Cuba has so far received 1,612,371 foreign visitors, an increase of 5.15% over the same period last year, according to data presented on Friday to members of Parliament by the Minister of Tourism, Manuel Marrero.

The Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries Group, BioCubaFarma, reported 315 million dollars in revenues in 2018, and was granted 116 new patents abroad, according to its director Eduardo Martínez.

With a high nutritional value and acceptance in the foreign market, sea cucumber is one of the exportable lines of the Empresa Pesquera Industrial La Coloma (Epicol) of Pinar del Río, for greater income to the national economy.

Sandra Eva Lomelí, professor at the University of Guadalajara, discussed the possibility of applying in Cuba the design of a system of costs for small and medium enterprises, in the last session of the XVI Cuban congress of women economists and accountants.

Businessmen from Cuba and Slovenia laid the foundations to increase their trade in a Business Forum in sectors that are key to the economies of both countries.