Israel may boost gas exports to the EU through Egypt. increased energy trade is an opportunity to improve relations between Brussels and Cairo. Brussels is trying to entice East Med parties by offering increased cooperation and investments in the clean energy sector too. As European energy markets are dealing with the fallout of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Brussels now seems to have realized that there are natural gas and LNG sources available on the southern shores of the Mediterranean. The potential of the East Med, in which Egypt, Israel, and potentially Cyprus, are in the process of setting up major LNG exporting infrastructure, has suddenly popped up on the desks of Brussels’ bureaucrats and experts. After years of almost total neglect by Europe, caused by cheap natural gas and an anti-Cairo attitude, Egypt is back in the picture. To boost possible LNG or natural gas deals between Egypt (East […]