RIGA - The agenda of next week's European Parliament (EP) plenary session includes a debate on the recent disruption of telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea, Latvian MEP Rihards Kols (National Alliance) informed.
Kols underlined that the protection of critical infrastructure is of vital importance. He believes that Europe should take resolute action to protect the vital force of the digital age - subsea energy and telecommunication cables as they ensure communication, trade and security.
The EP plenary is scheduled to take place in Strasbourg, France, from November 25 to 28.
As reported, two subsea internet cables - one between Lithuania and Sweden and one between Finland and Germany - have been damaged in the Baltic Sea.
Swedish authorities are investigating the cable disruption as possible sabotage, the prosecutor's office said Tuesday.
The cable linking Lithuania with Sweden was damaged on Sunday morning, Swedish telecommunications company Telia informed.
The company's representative indicated that the cable was damaged close to the site where the only C-Lion1 subsea telecommunications between Germany and Finland was damaged.
On Tuesday, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said he was convinced that the damage to the telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea connecting Lithuania and Sweden, as well as Germany and Finland, was most likely sabotage. On Wednesday, it was reported that Lithuanian Prosecutor General Nida Grunskiene has opened a terrorism investigation in connection with the incident.
The Latvian National Security Council discussed the issue at its November 20 meeting. Martins Dregeris, communications adviser to President Edgars Rinkevics, told LETA that the Latvian National Armed Forces have stepped up the monitoring of Latvia's communications infrastructure and are exchanging information with allies on security in the Baltic Sea.
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