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If the Israel-Cyprus leg is a 'commercial endeavour', why is the EU presenting the project on its websites and the PCI lists with the Israel-Cyprus leg included? (Photo: Wikimedia)

EU interconnector: Cyprus 'energy isolation' or Israeli gas?

The European Union has recently approved funding of €100m to Cyprus for the construction of the EuroAsia Interconnector to link Europe's electricity network with that of Israel and its illegal settlements in the West Bank.

If the project goes ahead, it will entrench the EU's already deep complicity in Israel's colonial settlement enterprise in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).

The interconnector was co...

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The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s, not those of EUobserver

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Ingrid Jaradat is the co-author of a legal study on the Euro-Asia interconnector for the Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council (PHROC).

If the Israel-Cyprus leg is a 'commercial endeavour', why is the EU presenting the project on its websites and the PCI lists with the Israel-Cyprus leg included? (Photo: Wikimedia)

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Author Bio

Ingrid Jaradat is the co-author of a legal study on the Euro-Asia interconnector for the Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council (PHROC).

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