{"id":11085,"date":"2026-06-16T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11085"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:39:00","slug":"eu-greece-joins-the-safe-european-defense-program-france-to-follow-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11085","title":{"rendered":"EU: Greece Joins the SAFE European Defense Program \u2014 France to Follow (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spokesperson for the European Commission on defense issues,\u00a0<strong>Thomas Renier<\/strong>, referred to Greece\u2019s signing of the <strong>SAFE program<\/strong>, emphasizing that the country is now part of the European defense funding mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm that <strong>an agreement with Greece under SAFE<\/strong> and that the <b>700 million euros<\/b> will be allocated to the program,\u201d Mr. Renier stated. As he noted, <b>agreements<\/a><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/symfonia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\/a&gt; with <b>Poland, Lithuania, Croatia, Romania, Belgium, and Cyprus.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson for the <b>European Commission<\/b>, according to ERT, revealed that <strong>France is also expected to sign on Wednesday (June 17)<\/strong>, following the<b> other countries<\/b> participating in the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith France\u2019s <b>signature <\/b>, another <b>important phase of SAFE <\/b>will be completed,\u201d he said, emphasizing that work in the <b>defense <\/b>sector is progressing rapidly, which he described as \u201cvital for supporting the EU\u2019s defense industry\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission\u2019s spokesperson on defense issues, Thomas Renier, referred to Greece\u2019s signing of the SAFE program, emphasizing that the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}