Brussels piles on pressure over Greece-Cyprus-Israel electricity cable

Just when the Greek Energy Minister thought he could take a short August break, after a hectic first 30 days of the Mitsotakis administration, a stern warning from Brussels has exposed the wavering attitude that Athens has chosen by succumbing to pressure from the Chinese-controlled transmission system operator ADMIE over the Attica-Crete subsea electricity cable.
On Monday, ADMIE-subsidiary Ariadni Interconnection opened the first tender bids for the Attica-Crete section of the Israel-Cyprus-Greece interconnector, in defiance of European Commission warnings and probably entangling Greece in a new standoff with Brussels, with the latter obliged to commence infringement procedures.
This prompted Deputy Director-General at the Commission's DG Energy Klaus-Dieter Borchardt to write to Energy and Environment Minister Kostis Hatzidakis warning the Greek side that if it insists...