Madrid, Spain.- Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell predicted today numerous disputes between Europe and the United States, following the latter’s decision to intensify economic sanctions against Cuba.

Borrell spoke in those terms before attending a conference on relations between the European Union (EU) and Washington, scheduled for Tuesday at the Casa de América in Madrid.

Speaking to the press, the Spanish foreign minister referred to President Donald Trump’s decision to activate, as of May 2, Title III of the Helms-Burton Law, which intensifies the ironclad blockade imposed by Washington on Havana.

The head of Foreign Affairs predicted that the EU and the United States will enter ‘a phase of extreme litigation activity before the courts of the World Trade Organization (WTO)’ for the reactivation of Helms-Burton.

Approved in 1996, this regulation codifies the economic, financial and commercial blockade that the United States has maintained against the Antillean country for almost six decades, a siege overwhelmingly condemned by the international community.

Its section III, suspended until now, establishes mechanisms for US citizens to sue companies that supposedly benefited from managing nationalized properties after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.

‘We will have to return to these litigation, I am sorry, but we are going to enter a phase of extreme litigation before the WTO and the lawyers are going to have a lot of work,’ warned the head of the Iberian nation’s diplomacy.

In his opinion, the response to Trump’s decision to push for an extraterritorial law obliges Europe to ‘rethink before the WTO the litigation that was filed and withdrawn when the United States accepted a moratorium (of Title III) renewable every six months. ‘