![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An Israeli company, with full protection from the Israeli government, is accused of enabling the Saudi regime’s tracking of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, eventually leading to his brutal murder.Ĭonstruction of the EuroAsia Interconnector is expected to start in June 2019 and end in December 2023. Cyprus, Israel and Greece on Monday signed an initial agreement on laying the worlds longest undersea power cable linking their electricity grids. ![]() The Israeli media recently revealed the deep involvement of Israel’s cyber-spying technology in helping “world dictators hunt dissidents and gays”. Laying of the Quantum cable will mean that 60% of the world’s internet traffic - between Europe and Asia - will pass through Israel, raising serious concerns on security and civil rights. The signing in Greece’s capital city Athens comes just a few months after Greece, Cyprus, and Israel joined forces to connect their power grids via the so-called EuroAsia Interconnector. The integration of the so-called Quantum cable in the EuroAsia Interconnector project was agreed at a Greece-Cyprus-Israel trilateral summit in June 2017 at a cost of $200 million and expected to go live in 2020. Īt a cost of €3.5 billion, the project’s stated aim is to end the energy isolation of Cyprus and Crete, linking them to the European network, and to create an “ energy bridge between the continents of Asia and Europe.” The project claims to enhance “ further the three countries’ geopolitical importance in regard to EU energy security and supply.”Īlongside the EuroAsia Interconnector, a subsea ultra high speed fiber-optic cable system will be laid to connect Israel, at one end, and Spain at the other, passing through Cyprus, Greece, Italy and France. Israel plans to use the Interconnector to export to Europe electricity produced from its controversial gas discoveries. Israel, Cyprus and Greece on Monday signed an initial agreement on laying the world's longest undersea power cable linking their electricity grids. EuroAsia’s 525kV high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cable will be. The project, called the Euro-Asia interconnector, will provide a back-up power source in times of emergency, said Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, who was in Nicosia to sign a memorandum of understanding with his counterparts.Ĭypriot Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said it marked “a decisive step towards ending the island’s energy isolation, and consequently, our dependence on heavy fuels.The Interconnector is explicitly defined as enabling ‘multi-directional’ and ‘ bi-directional transmission of electricity ’, thus directly connecting Europe and the illegal Israeli settlements. The EuroAsia Interconnector 2 is a HVDC interconnector between the Greek, Cypriot, and Israeli power grids via the world's longest submarine power cable (310 kilometres (190 mi) from Israel to Cyprus and 898 kilometres (558 mi) from Cyprus to Greece, for a total of 1,208 kilometres (751 mi)). The EuroAsia grid interconnector the longest and deepest in the world will connect Greece, Israel, and Cyprus. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Cyprus, Greece and Israel on Monday signed an initial agreement to build the world’s longest and deepest underwater power cable that will traverse the Mediterranean seabed at a cost of about $900 million and link their electricity grids. Stavros Ioannides/PIO/Handout via REUTERS Cyprus Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry, Natasa Pilides and Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, and the Greek Minister of Environment and Energy, Kostas Skrekas participating via videoconference sign an agreement about the "EuroAsia Interconnector" Project at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia, Cyprus March 8, 2021. ![]()
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