“After what happened with Nord Stream, we need increased monitoring and protection of critical maritime infrastructure, as well as ships from physical and cyber threats,” he said in an interview with The Financial Times.
The European Commissioner suggested that floating LNG regasification stations could be a potential target.
Earlier, Spanish MEP Manu Pineda asked the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, what measures the EU is taking in the situation with the investigation into the explosions at Nord Stream.
Representative of the European Commission (EC) Christian Wiegand said that the attacks on gas pipelines will not be investigated in the Hague court.
The emergency on three lines of the system occurred on September 26, 2022 near the Danish island of Bornholm.
According to Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the explosives were planted by US Navy divers and subsequently activated by the Norwegian Navy.
According to the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, in Moscow they see a "deaf wall of unwillingness" to deal with the terrorist attack.
In March, a series of materials appeared in the Western media, in which the version was raised that some “pro-Ukrainian group” could be behind the sabotage on gas pipelines.