Nato Ships From North Sea Countries Must Better Protect Cables and Pipelines

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Countries bordering the North Sea will conduct joint military exercises and cooperate with NATO to better protect energy infrastructure. Ten government leaders agreed to this at the Third North Sea Conference in Hamburg. The agreement concerns the protection of electricity cables, transformer platforms, natural gas pipelines, and internet connections. In recent years, suspicious Russian ships have increasingly been sighted in the North Sea, mapp…

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North Sea cables need better protection against potential sabotage or hacking, according to the heads of government of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom. They agreed to cooperate more closely on defense and other forms of underwater infrastructure security. On Monday, the heads of state and prime ministers will attend the North Sea Summit in Hamburg, where security is a high p…