The “EEZ engraving with Cyprus” is requested in the media by the MEP and a member of the European Parliament’s Security & Defense Committee, Mr. Nikolas Farantouris. As he points out, “the extremely negative developments that lead to the strategic encirclement of Greece by partners, allies and enemies, including recent offensive Turkey and Libya aggressive actions, the controversy of Egypt, but also the energy and geopolitical developments in the Eastern Greece.
“It is time for the EEZ formula, before our strategic encirclement ended up unstoppable and the geopolitical shrinkage is fatal,” he concludes.
Final cancellation for East Med conductor
At the same time, the Greek MEP seeks to be informed “what are the geopolitical exchanges our country received to consent to the cancellation of the EastMed gas pipeline project after the announcement of the Mammoth Israeli-Egypt”.
Last Friday, Israel and Aigypt announced one of the largest energy agreements in recent years to transport Israeli gas from the south of Cyprus, its liquefaction to Egypt and its export as LNG around the world and Europe.
According to the MEP and Professor of Energy Law, “this agreement, worth $ 35 billion, reinforces Egypt as a regional energy hub – instead of Greece and Cyprus – and is the tombstone of Greece -Israel -Israeli energy cooperation and ESRA -Israeli Gas in Europe through Greece. “
As Nicolas Farantouris states, “this announcement coincides with the US Secretary of State’s communication with the Greek Prime Minister, who raises multiple questions:
a) As for its content. The Laconian announcement by the US Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports the good relations of Greece and energy cooperation. But what exactly collaboration?
(b) For the timeframe of the announcement of the Israeli-Egypt deal with the challenge of the Greek maritime zones and the simultaneous degradation of Greece’s geopolitical importance.
(c) For disputes and threats in Greece in violation of international law. Did he refer to the communication by the Greek Prime Minister?
d) For the communication of the US Foreign Minister Rubio and not President Trump himself to his counterpart, as is done in the many telephone and individual communications between Trump and Erdogan. ”
According to Nicolas Farantouris, “it seems that Turkey’s pressures, which opposes EastMed’s work, citing disputed sea zones and illegal agreements with Libya, persuaded the American side to withdraw its support from the project, as it did not. The “shipwreck” of such a geostrategic and geo -economic work? For example, US pressure on Turkey for continental shelf – EEZ, Casus Belli lifting, European guarantees, etc.? Because if it was canceled without even any tangible rewards, then it is a criminal voluntary detachment. “
“I call on the government to awaken instead of monitoring its geopolitical degradation and finally proceeding with the country’s geopolitical actions of the country such as the EEZ charting with Cyprus. We are already in time. “
The history of withdrawing American support to East Med
Both the US and the EU had initially supported the EastMed underwater project project as a project promoting Europe’s diversification and energy security. The EU had also made a brave funding of techno -economic viability studies with over € 60m.
However, in January 2022 at a non-Paper of the US Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was involved in Athens, Nicosia and Tel Aviv, the US said they were supporting their support for the East Med submarine, which aspired to carry the Eastern Mediterranean deposits in Europe through Greece.
In his statements by Washington on January 18, 2022, at a closed online meeting of the Think-Tank Center for Strategic and International Studies and in a limited number of participants from Greece and America, then-Foreign Ministry consultant Amos Hochstein revealed that “there was” communication with the stakeholders in Our.
Non-Paper emphasized that America wishes to connect the Eastern Mediterranean in other ways as Est Med is a “friction field” with Turkey.
Erdogan’s pissed off
Threats in Greece with a “weapon” of natural gas had also reunited by Recep Tayyip Erdogan while expressing his satisfaction with the cancellation of plans for the construction of the gas pipeline, arguing that no projects could be done in the wider area without participation.
Asked by reporters about withdrawing US support in the East Med pipeline, he had noted that this project cannot be done due to costs, adding that this job, namely the transfer of gas, cannot be done without Turkey.
“Because if it is going to go to Europe here, it will only be done through Turkey. Our approach to the Eastern Mediterranean is well known. We have an agreement with Libya. With the agreement we made with Libya, we put the issue in an official text. We continue our work in this official text. On the one hand, we received four drilling boats and two seismic research boats. Did we get these for anything? These will work in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. We will have the strongest infrastructure in this respect, “he said then.
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