The European Commission has given assurances that it will use “all the diplomatic means at its disposal” in order to protect the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) after reports this week revealed the project was being monitored by Turkey from a distance.
According to the Cyprus News Agency, the Commission’s General Directorate of Energy gave its assurances in an official letter after a research vessel conducting surveys of the seabed for the proposed subsea electricity cable was being monitored by the Turkish navy.
It was not clear to whom precisely the letter was addressed,…
