{"id":9290,"date":"2026-04-26T09:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/9290\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:35:08","slug":"greece-france-deepen-strategic-partnership-after-macron-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/9290\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece, France deepen strategic partnership after Macron visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/mitsotakis_web-1.jpg\" alt=\"Greece, France deepen strategic partnership after Macron visit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/mitsotakis_web-1-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Sunday said Greece\u2019s upgraded strategic partnership with France marks a deepening of bilateral ties across defense, economic and technological sectors following the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Athens.<\/p>\n<p>In his weekly social media post, Mitsotakis said the agreement \u201cconfirms the strategic choice we made in 2021 to strengthen Greece-France relations, turning it into a strong, multi-level alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He described the new \u201cEnhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership\u201d as broad in scope, covering defense and security as well as the economy, civil protection, migration, technology, environment, education and culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a wide strategic agreement that further deepens relations and creates new opportunities, from artificial intelligence to cybersecurity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mitsotakis said the renewed defense cooperation reinforces deterrence and strengthens Greece\u2019s geopolitical position in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreece and France are EU and NATO members, but also a strong axis in the Mediterranean,\u201d he said, citing cooperation on support for Cyprus as an example of European solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the partnership aligns with efforts to promote a more autonomous and competitive Europe capable of acting with confidence in an uncertain global environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Sunday said Greece\u2019s upgraded strategic partnership with France marks a deepening of bilateral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2032,735,1385,4025,5,7266,346],"class_list":["post-9290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-cyprus","tag-defense","tag-diplomacy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-france","tag-kyriakos-mitsotakis","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}