The leaders of Hungary, Romania, Georgia, and Azerbaijan plan to meet in Romania's capital on December 17 to conclude an agreement on an undersea electricity connector that could become a new power source for the European Union amid a crunch on energy supplies caused by the war in Ukraine. The agreement involves a cable running beneath the Black Sea which would link Azerbaijan to Hungary via Georgia and Romania, according to Bertalan Havasi, press officer for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. To read the original story by AP, click here.
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