{"id":2516,"date":"2026-04-25T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:50:00","slug":"mitsotakis-and-macron-at-maximou-they-will-sign-agreements-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2516","title":{"rendered":"Mitsotakis and Macron at Maximou &#8211; They will sign agreements (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"320\" data-end=\"585\">At the <strong data-start=\"324\" data-end=\"342\">Meximou Mansion<\/strong>, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and <strong data-start=\"383\" data-end=\"402\">Emanuel Macron<\/strong>, after their joint presence on the frigate &#8220;<strong data-start=\"446\" data-end=\"455\">Kimon<\/strong>&#8221; in <strong data-start=\"462\" data-end=\"473\">Piraeus<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p data-end=\"585\" data-start=\"320\">This visit was highly symbolic, as it is linked to the close cooperation between the two countries in the field of defence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"587\" data-end=\"913\">The two leaders will attend the signing of the renewed <strong data-start=\"644\" data-end=\"676\">Strategic Relationship Agreement<\/strong> on <strong data-start=\"685\" data-end=\"697\">security<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"706\" data-end=\"715\">defense<\/strong>, originally concluded in 2021. The agreement includes the well-known <strong data-start=\"785\" data-end=\"824\">mutual defense assistance clause<\/strong>, which is triggered in the event of a threat to the sovereignty of either state.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"915\" data-end=\"1164\">The signing will be undertaken on the Greek side by ministers <strong data-start=\"975\" data-end=\"999\">Giorgos Gerapetritis<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1004\" data-end=\"1021\">Nikos Dendias<\/strong>. The French side will be joined by <strong data-start=\"1063\" data-end=\"1085\">Benjamin Haddad<\/strong>, responsible for European affairs, and the <strong data-start=\"1143\" data-end=\"1163\">Armed Forces<\/strong> minister.<\/p>\n<p><p data-start=\"1166\" data-end=\"1354\">The agreement is being renewed as it was nearing the end of its five-year term. It now provides for automatic renewal every five years unless either party chooses to terminate it.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1356\" data-end=\"1638\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">In parallel, new partnerships are also being launched in the areas of <strong data-start=\"1420\" data-end=\"1435\">education<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1444\" data-end=\"1459\">innovation<\/strong>. In the field of research, the two sides are expected to enter into a memorandum of understanding on the development of <strong data-start=\"1554\" data-end=\"1593\">small modular reactors (SMR)<\/strong>, further strengthening bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n<h3>View Images<\/h3>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"mitsotakis-macron1.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"186924\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/94\/mitsotakis-macron1.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"maximoujpg-4jpg.webp\" data-dpc-media-id=\"186923\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/94\/maximoujpg-4jpg.webp\"><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"maximoujpg-5jpg.webp\" data-dpc-media-id=\"186922\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/94\/maximoujpg-5jpg.webp\"><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"3.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"186917\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/94\/3.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"4.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"186919\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/94\/4.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"1.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"186918\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/94\/1.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"5.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"186920\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/94\/5.jpg\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Emmanuel Macron arrived at the Maximou Mansion, after their joint presence at the frigate &#8220;Kimon&#8221; in Piraeus.<br \/>\nThe &#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","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=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}