Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001111/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Yannis Maniatis (S&D)
Further to my letter of 20 January 2025, addressed to the High Representative and the Commissioner for Energy, concerning the need for EU initiatives to address Turkish acts of provocation that are hampering the implementation of the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), and in view of recent reports in the Greek press, which state that the project promoter (ADMIE) has suspended payments to cable manufacturing and laying company Nexans, leading to the departure of the research vessels from Greece because they have been unable to enter international waters (but within the boundaries of the internationally recognised Greek/European EEZ based on the agreement between Greece and Egypt) for months due to geopolitical reasons (the acts of provocation began in July 2024), can the Commission answer the following:
- 1.Concerning risks to the project implementation schedule and the EUR 657 million that has been earmarked or the amount which the CEF has disbursed for the project, are there any, have any been foreseen and are any being addressed?
- 2.Has the Greek Government informed the Commission of the above developments and, if so, have joint initiatives been taken to protect this strategic European energy infrastructure project (PCI)?
- 3.Given that the project is ‘encounter[ing] significant implementation difficulties’ and that Cyprus is the only EU Member State that is not connected to the European electricity grid, is the Commission planning on ‘designat[ing] a European coordinator’ (Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2022/869), as it did for the Baltic states?
Submitted: 14.3.2025