Vassilis Nedos

The French contractor for the planned Crete-Cyprus electricity link has applied for an exceptional permit to resume seabed surveys, a step that could bring work back within weeks.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius expressed his country's desire to cooperate with Greece on a future submarine construction program, specifically the modern Type 212 CD models, during a meeting Wednesday with Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias at the Crete Firing Range.

A French research vessel is awaiting authorization to resume seabed surveys for an electricity cable linking Greece and Cyprus, as Turkish objections to a separate undersea cable project underscore the geopolitical challenges facing infrastructure development in the Εastern Mediterranean.

Greece has submitted a draft presidential decree establishing the South Aegean-1 Marine Park to the Council of State, advancing a conservation initiative amid tensions with Turkey over maritime jurisdiction in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean.

Greece will take “every appropriate action to safeguard its sovereign rights” after Libya's parliament, based in Benghazi, ratified the Turkish-Libyan memorandum, Athens' Foreign Ministry said.

Athens sees a narrow opening to resolve a dispute over the planned Greece-Cyprus electricity interconnection, interpreting recent Turkish remarks as a possible willingness to accept written notification rather than require authorization.

Unmanned surface and underwater vehicles (ASVs and AUVs) have both military and commercial applications and could benefit the Greek economy by providing low-cost solutions, Michael Triantafyllou, a professor of ocean science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the American university's Sea Grant, program tells Kathimerini. The program combines ocean science with advanced technology.

The recent ratification of the Turkish-Libyan memorandum delineating zones of maritime influence by the once reticent Libyan parliament represents a major challenge to Greek policy in the Eastern Mediterranean, and Greece is trying to find ways to blunt its effects.

Turkey is not behaving as a good friend or a good NATO ally, says Rick Scott, the Republican US senator from Florida and member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, who visited Athens and Nicosia a few days ago, in an interview with Kathimerini.

Surveys for the Greece-Cyprus electricity interconnector could soon resume as the research vessel Abeille Marengo sailed off Crete near Iraklio late Monday after receiving authorization from Greek authorities.