Greece and France Sign New Agreements, Deepening Strategic Alliance

The leaders of France and Greece signed caller bilateral agreements successful Athens. Credit: AMNA / Giorgos Vitsaras

The leaders of Greece and France signed 9 caller bilateral practice agreements betwixt their allied nations successful Athens connected Saturday.

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived astatine the Maximos Mansion aft helium had earlier visited the French-made frigate Kimon with the Greek Prime Minister astatine the Port of Piraeus.

“Your sojourn has sent a precise wide connection of what you said yesterday, “Greece and France, alliance,” is simply a rule to which we volition each stay committed and done which we volition proceed to fortify our cooperation,” the Greek Premier told his guest.

The 2 nations’ strategical concern successful defence and security, archetypal signed successful 2021, was extended during the Maximos Mansion meeting, and caller practice deals were signed, covering further areas specified arsenic energy, economy, civilization and innovation.

“This is wherefore this narration is important, some for your country, which stands connected the frontline of immoderate of the astir important challenges facing Europeans, and for some our nations,” French President Macron told Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis.

Greece France confederation strengthened by 9 caller agreements

A ceremonial for the signing of a bid of agreements betwixt Greece and France was held astatine the Maximos Mansion, opening with the Enhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, signed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.

The pursuing agreements were besides signed:

• An statement connected the renewal of the strategical concern for cooperation successful defence and security betwixt Greece and France
• A roadmap to fortify practice betwixt the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic and the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the French Republic
• A Joint Declaration of Intent betwixt the Ministry of Education of the Hellenic Republic and the Ministry of Education of the French Republic to further heighten bilateral practice successful vocational education, grooming and lifelong learning
• An Action Plan to fortify practice successful the fields of higher acquisition and technological probe betwixt the Hellenic Republic and the French Republic for the play 2026-2030
• A Joint Declaration of Intent for the constitution of practice successful the tract of atomic exertion betwixt the Ministry of Development of the Hellenic Republic and the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty of the French Republic
• An statement connected the constitution of an intergovernmental organisation for the improvement and cognition of integer water systems and accusation services
• A Declaration of Intent for practice successful probe and improvement successful the defence assemblage and successful innovation successful defence and subject technologies and systems
• A Framework Agreement for the follow-on enactment of MICA IR/RF missiles and the archetypal Implementing Arrangement for 2026 betwixt the Ministry of National Defence of the Hellenic Republic and MBDA France.

In the afternoon, Mitsotakis and Macron volition sojourn the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, wherever they volition talk astatine the Greece-France Economic Forum organized by the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises successful practice with the French-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and Industry.