{"id":231894,"date":"2026-08-19T05:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/eu-backed-electricity-link-to-cyprus-stalls-amid-regional-tensions\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T05:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:49:04","slug":"eu-backed-electricity-link-to-cyprus-stalls-amid-regional-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/eu-backed-electricity-link-to-cyprus-stalls-amid-regional-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"EU-backed electricity link to Cyprus stalls amid regional tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nearly \u20ac2 billion Great Sea Interconnector subsea cable would connect Cyprus to the EU&#8217;s electricity system and end Nicosia&#8217;s energy isolation. However, Turkey&#8217;s maritime ambitions and financing issues have been stalling the project, which was meant to become operational in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/08\/19\/eu-backed-electricity-link-to-cyprus-stalls-amid-regional-tensions\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nearly \u20ac2 billion Great Sea Interconnector subsea cable would connect Cyprus to the EU&#8217;s electricity system and end Nicosia&#8217;s energy isolation. However, Turkey&#8217;s maritime ambitions and financing issues have been stalling the project, which was meant to become operational in 2024. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":231895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}