British taxpayers are funding waste collections in communist Cuba, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The EU has given £1.6 million to fund bin rounds on the Caribbean island as part of an environmental regeneration project – at a time when many UK collections are being cut. Although the EU’s trade embargo against the communist regime ended in 2008, the Foreign Office still regards Cuba as a ‘country of concern’ because of its appalling human rights record. Funded: The EU has given £1.6 million to fund bin rounds to regenerate the Caribbean island of Cuba Last night, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said the project revealed the ‘breathtaking hypocrisy’ of Brussels bureaucrats.
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The EU has given £1.6m to fund waste collections on Caribbean island
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Foreign Office still regards Cuba as 'country of concern' over human rights
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Eric Pickles slammed the project as 'breathtaking hypocrisy' of Brussels
EU cash – including UK contributions – paid for 75 per cent of the three-year scheme, which is part of the €86 million (£68.7 million) in international development funding @placeholder has given to Cuba since 2008.