{"id":2548,"date":"2026-04-25T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2026-04-25T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:52:00","slug":"macron-to-mitsotakis-we-must-strengthen-security-and-competitiveness-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2548","title":{"rendered":"Macron to Mitsotakis: We must strengthen security and competitiveness in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The broader geopolitical context of cooperation between Greece and <b>France <\/b> was outlined by Emmanuel Macron, addressing <b>Kyriacos Mitsotakis <\/b> and speaking about the prospects for cooperation between the two countries. <\/p>\n<p>From the podium of the <b>Greek-French Business Forum<\/b>, focusing on developing Europe&#8217;s competitiveness in terms of protecting it from international challenges, French President <b>Emmanuel Macron <\/b> said: &#8220;<b>We must strengthen the security of our continent<\/b>&#8220;. <\/p>\n<p>Making specific reference to our country&#8217;s economic performance, Emmanuel Macron said: &#8220;Greece is a model for economic progress with GDP growth and a reduction in unemployment.&#8221; &#8220;<b>We as France have restored industrial production. We have a large network of start-ups and we have invested in renewable energy<\/b>,&#8221; Emmanuel Macron stressed. &#8220;We have made investments in defence, artificial intelligence, <b>renewable energy<\/b>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But we are not at the level we want &#8211; given the circumstances &#8211; and we need to build more trust with investors,&#8221; Emmanuel Macron noted. He even included this necessity in the need to strengthen the security of <b>Europe<\/b>. &#8220;<b>We must strengthen the security of our continent<\/b>,&#8221; Emmanuel Macron said.<\/p>\n<p>Setting the tone of his position and speaking more about the global status quo, Emmanuel Macron said: &#8220;<b>Today, there is a great confrontation between the two superpowers, namely the US and China. There is also a geopolitical confrontation<\/b>&#8220;. &#8220;But as France and Greece we have a common strategic vision to strengthen the competitiveness of Europe, which is not confrontational to the great powers,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is why as France we have built the <b>Independent <\/b>Alliance and at the heart of the Alliance is the <b>IMEC <\/b>(ed. India Economic Corridor &#8211; Middle East &#8211; Europe), including <b>India <\/b>and including development of technology, security, data centers,&#8221; Emmanuel Macron underlined. &#8220;<b>All this will strengthen Europe<\/b>,&#8221; the French president stressed. <\/p>\n<p>But in the direction of strengthening Europe&#8217;s competitiveness at home, Emmanuel Macron said: &#8220;<b>To make Europe more competitive, we must protect our strategic sectors<\/b>.&#8221; &#8220;<b>To do this we want to simplify the barriers of the internal market<\/b>,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>He spoke of the need to boost public and private investment. &#8220;<b>We need to accelerate public and private investment in Europe and mobilise more capital to improve our own competitiveness<\/b>,&#8221; Emmanuel Macron stressed. <\/p>\n<p>With work underway in Brussels on the multi-year European budget, Emmanuel Macron said: &#8220;The European budget must focus on cohesion with investments in energy, digital systems, space and nuclear energy.&#8221; &#8220;<b>We will push for the European budget to be more ambitious. And Europe must not be dependent on the US or China<\/b>,&#8221; French President Emmanuel Macron concluded his statement. <\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The broader geopolitical framework of cooperation between Greece and France was developed by Emmanuel Macron, addressing Kyriakos Mitsotakis and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2548","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\/2548","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=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}