The Great Game in the East Med

The events of these days will shape our region's future in ways that we cannot predict. Thursday's signing of the agreement between Greece, Cyprus and Israel for the construction of the East Med submarine pipeline prompted the Turkish National Assembly to ratify a decision to send troops to Libya. A few days earlier, the United States adopted the East Med Act, in which they support cooperation on security and energy between Greece, Cyprus and Israel and at the same time threaten Turkey with sanctions for the purchase of Russian weapons. All the protagonists are on stage, and they know that their next movements in the Eastern Mediterranean will have lasting consequences.

The cooperation that has developed between Greece, Cyprus and Israel over the past few years has strengthened each of them. However distant the construction of the pipeline might be, the trilateral agreement...