- Climate change, the explosion of new technologies, the threat of terrorism and violent extremism and the recent pandemic crisis have been destabilizing on multiple levels.
- US troops withdraw from Afghanistan and the Taliban take control of the country. A cycle that lasted twenty years, since it began after the 9/11 attacks on the United States, has come to a close.
- The AUKUS Agreement creates new strategic conditions in the Pacific and Asia, but also globally.
- We find ourselves in a condition of strategic competition, of which the AUKUS Agreement is part.
- Greece has a foreign policy culture of cooperation and alliance, not competition.
- Greece has developed a strategic alliance with France on security and defense, adding another external security provider in the face of the threat from Turkey.
- The United Kingdom is a traditional ally of Greece, with an important role in NATO and the Eastern Mediterranean.
- Greece has a strategic alliance with the United States with an emphasis on defense and security issues.
- Greece is a member of the EU and strongly supports the defense integration and strategic autonomy of the Union.
- The Greece-France agreement is a tangible first step on what could be the road to EU defense cooperation and the gradual strategic autonomy of the Union.
You may read here the Policy brief by Triandafyllos Karatrantos, ELIAMEP Research Fellow (in Greek).