EU Moves to Enhance Undersea Cable Security as Sweden Looks at New Incident

Swedish authorities confirmed this morning, February 21, that they have launched an investigation into newly discovered damage on another undersea Baltic transmission cable. News of the investigation came as the European Commission’s Executive Committee mapped out new steps to protect critical infrastructure including calling for enforcing sanctions against the shadow fleet.

Few details have been provided on the latest incident other than a brief statement from the Swedish Police saying they were investigating “a suspected cable break in the Baltic Sea within the Swedish economic zone. The preliminary investigation into suspected sabotage was initiated so that the police can have access to the tools needed to clarify what happened …