Europe’s energy security is under major threat again.
The fact is that EU has high hopes for a $25 billion gas pipeline in Africa that could run from Nigeria to Morocco.
In the long term, the 5,600-kilometer pipeline could fuel 11 countries along the African coast on its way to Morocco and then be connected to the energy system of Spain or Italy.
But this pipeline was planned to pass through Niger, whose new authorities do not share their predecessors’ enthusiasm for relations with Europe.
So that is apparently one of the reasons why the EU leaders are so involved in what is going on.
Meanwhile, Josep Borrell declared the evacuation of all EU citizens from Niger.