Israel’s newly appointed energy minister Eli Cohen and his Cypriot counterpart George Papanastasiou on 29 January held their first official talks since the former took office on 3 January (MEES, 5 January).
Mr Cohen bigged up a long-standing Israeli proposal to connect the two countries’ power grids “from Israel to Europe through Cyprus.” Any Israel-Cyprus link would be via an extension to a planned 1GW HVDC Cyprus-Greece interconnector (MEES, 27 October 2023). (CONTINUED - 170 WORDS)