{"id":37052,"date":"2024-04-25T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=37052"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:07:33","slug":"european-states-agree-to-protect-north-sea-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/europaeische-staaten-vereinbaren-schutz-der-nordsee-infrastruktur\/","title":{"rendered":"European states agree to protect North Sea infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Six countries bordering the North Sea signed an agreement on 9 April to jointly protect the underwater infrastructure from possible (Russian) attacks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The signatories include Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Norway and the Netherlands - only France is missing.<\/p>\n<p>The North Sea is Europe's powerhouse, driving forward renewable energy ambitions and helping to increase energy security on the continent and in the UK.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37055\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37055\" style=\"width: 357px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37055\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/B2_zerstoerte-GasPipeline-Nordstream1-2_Quelle_Maptiller-OpenStreetMap-300x169.webp\" alt=\"Destroyed gas pipelines Nordstream1 and 2 Image: Maptiller-OpenStreetMap\" width=\"357\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/B2_zerstoerte-GasPipeline-Nordstream1-2_Quelle_Maptiller-OpenStreetMap-300x169.webp 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/B2_zerstoerte-GasPipeline-Nordstream1-2_Quelle_Maptiller-OpenStreetMap-750x422.webp 750w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/B2_zerstoerte-GasPipeline-Nordstream1-2_Quelle_Maptiller-OpenStreetMap.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destroyed gas pipelines Nordstream1 and 2 Image: Maptiller-OpenStreetMap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following the explosions on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in September 2022 and the sabotaged submarine cables in the Baltic Sea, the infrastructure in the North Sea has also been declared a security priority. In May 2023, NATO also declared that Russia could well sabotage submarine cables in order to \"punish\" Western countries for their support of Ukraine. Global security risks have also increased further since the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37056\" style=\"width: 496px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37056\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/B3_Schaeden-kritischer-Infra_Quelle_SWP-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Previous damage to critical infrastructure. Graphic: SWP\" width=\"496\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/B3_Schaeden-kritischer-Infra_Quelle_SWP-300x208.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/B3_Schaeden-kritischer-Infra_Quelle_SWP.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Previous damage to critical infrastructure. Graphic: SWP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is therefore crucial that the critical energy infrastructure in the North Sea is protected.<br \/>\nThis agreement strengthens relations with our main northern European neighbours and ensures that infrastructure is resilient to those who would threaten or destroy it, said the UK Minister for Nuclear and Renewable Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Euractiv, kdk<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sechs Nordsee-Anrainerstaaten haben am 9. April ein Abkommen unterzeichnet, um die Unterwasserinfrastruktur vor m\u00f6glichen (russischen) Angriffen gemeinsam zu sch\u00fctzen. Zu den Unterzeichnern geh\u00f6ren Belgien, D\u00e4nemark, Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien, Norwegen und die Niederlande - nur Frankreich fehlt. Die Nordsee ist Europas Kraftwerk, das die Ambitionen im Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien voranbringt, und sie tr\u00e4gt dazu bei, die [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,486,42],"tags":[1253,3298,7231,4432,561,7230,1794,6495],"class_list":["post-37052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sicherheitspolitik-news","category-headlines","category-news","tag-energieversorgung","tag-erneuerbare-energien","tag-internationale-zusammenarbeit","tag-nord-stream","tag-nordsee","tag-seekabel-sabotage","tag-sicherheitsabkommen","tag-unterwasserinfrastruktur"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49692,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37052\/revisions\/49692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}