European infrastructures: the critiques of gas pipelines to submarine cables

With the sabotage of gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 And Nord Stream 2 a hybrid conflict over the plan could arise technological and energetic, putting European security under threat from Russia, even if no explicit accusations can be made due to the lack of irrefutable evidence. EU Member States should therefore sound the alarm to identify the most vulnerable points of digital connections andenergy supply.

For example, Member States will have to act in coordination with: Brussels according to a specific calendar and a common methodology, a kind of stress test that, according to Anitta Hipper, spokesperson for the community administrator responsible for Internal securityshould also cover human acts such as: sabotage And terrorist or hybrid attacks.

Waiting for the press conference of Jens StoltenbergSecretary General of NATO, to take stock of the level of tension reached with Russia in the current situation, the concern is not only gas pipelinesbut me too submarine cables.

The latter are the carriers of global internet traffic, more than 400 fiber optic tubes spanning 1.3 million kilometers and managed by proven companies such as Google, Microsoft and others, whose vulnerability is related to being in international watersmaking their protection difficult.