Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on first EU trip since Khashoggi murder

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is in Athens on his first European Union journey because the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Later this week he is due in France. 

The purpose of the go to in response to the Saudi royal courtroom is "to debate bilateral relations and methods to reinforce them in varied fields". 

One of the crucial urgent points on the desk is vitality. 

"I imagine we've got additionally historic alternatives that we're going to finalise quite a lot of it at the moment, linking the grid of electrical energy which we will present Greece and South West Europe by Greece with the less expensive renewable vitality," introduced the Crown Prince. "Additionally we're working about hydrogen and easy methods to flip Greece as a hub for Europe to hydrogen. That’s a game-changer for each of us."

The homicide that shocked the world

The Crown Prince has been a pariah within the West because the killing of Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi brokers within the kingdom's Istanbul consulate in October 2018.

Mohammed bin Salman, or MBS as he's typically referred to, has been strongly linked to the homicide.

The journey to Europe comes lower than two weeks after US President Joe Biden " fist-bumped" a greeting to MBS after they met for an Arab leaders summit in Jeddah.

Observers say that exhibits that the seek for oil and gasoline provides within the present vitality disaster has compelled the West to turn out to be extra accepting of the Saudi Prince.

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