Corridoi verdi Ue a rischio: il caso Black Sea Submarine Cable

Abstract

The concept of the green corridor is gaining increasing attention in both scientific literature and European Union policy analysis, particularly regarding renewable energy interdependence and international trade. EU energy policy has long maintained a strategic focus on its neighbouring regions. The European Green Deal, along with subsequent strategies such as the Competitiveness Compass, has coupled energy and climate objectives with broader foreign policy and industrial ambitions, including the expansion of the acquis communautaire. Among the EU’s most ambitious green corridors, this article examines the proposed Black Sea Submarine Cable project, an electricity interconnection linking the eastern and western shores of the Black Sea. This initiative represents a strategic expansion of European interdependencies in the broader region of the Caucasus and Central Asia—areas of critical importance for the EU’s energy security and transition goals. At the same time, this development invites a reassessment of the very notion of green corridors and the principles underpinning the EU’s energy integration with its external partners.