The Israel and the European Union will sign an agreement today on gas exports, as announced by the Israeli Ministry of Energy.
Brussels has said Israel could be a new source of gas as the EU seeks to reduce its dependence on Russian energy.
After all, yesterday the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who has been in Israel since yesterday, stated that the European Union wants to “strengthen” its energy cooperation with the Jewish state in response to the “blackmail” of Russia.
“The Kremlin has used our dependence on Russian fossil fuels to blackmail us.” denounced von der Leyen in a speech at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev in southern Israel.
“Since the beginning of the war (in Ukraine), Russia has deliberately cut off its gas supplies to Poland, Bulgaria and Finland, to Dutch and Danish companies in retaliation for our support for Ukraine.” underlined.
“The Kremlin’s behavior only succeeds in strengthening our will to free ourselves from our dependence on Russian mineral energy,” von der Leyen said.
“For example, we are currently exploring ways to strengthen our energy cooperation with Israel,” she said. submarine power cable project to connect Jewish state, Cyprus and Greeceas well as one “Pipeline” in the eastern Mediterranean.
The French Agency reported yesterday that Three major options are offered to Israel to export some of its gas to Europe: to channel its natural gas to Egypt, a neighboring country already connected by a pipeline to the Jewish state, which would then liquefy it and ship it to Europe; build a gas pipeline to Turkey, which connected, in turn, with the Old Continent; or to build a new hydrocarbon route directly to the south of Europe.
