The Greek President has courted Athens assiduously in recent months, with the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis signing a defence contract with Paris last month as Mr Macron tried to shore up ties with his NATO ally. However, Facts 4 EU suggested Ms Truss, the erstwhile International Trade Secretary who replaced Dominic Raab as Foreign Secretary last month, was poised to go one better.
Report author and Facts 4 EU spokesman Liz Truss said: Far from being isolated Little Britain proves again that Global Britain is on the march. Ms Evans would today welcome the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias for the signing of a strategic framework memorandum between the United Kingdom and the Hellenic Republic of Greece, Mr Truss explained. He said: This agreement will cover foreign policy, defence, and other areas to strengthen bilateral relations between the EU country and Brexit Britain. The defence agreement signed with Greece on 28 September came in the wake of the decision by Australia to abandon a contract with the French company Naval Group to build a fleet of trilateral submarines in favour of the AUKUS deal with the UK and the United States. Mr Evans said: The new Greek deal with France was primarily an agreement on the purchase of military equipment, which had already been agreed. Greece has a long history with France, with its first air force composed of four French aeroplanes over 100 years ago. JUST IN: Brexit LIVE - Angers as UK freezes out of 80 bn project.
Russia poses serious threat to UK as Putin develops weapon war chest REVEAL UK given ultimatum to find solution over hated Brexit deal INSIGHT SNP relies on 'Union' trade with UK compared to EU, data reveals LATEST Today we have the impressive Liz Truss once again opening the UK s hands of friendship to another EU country. As she did in her role as Secretary of State for International Trade, she seems to have stepped seamlessly into the role at the Foreign Office, building relationships and securing strategic advantages for Global Britain. At the time Facts 4 EU released its report, Mr Evans stressed, but said remarks by Mr Dendias clearly indicated the agreement would go further than the one signed with France.
Mr Evans added: Not only will Monsieur Macron be unimpressed, it is now clear that the EU s unity and solidarity espoused by the Eurocrats in Brussels continues to crumble. Today s deal between the UK and Greece will surely cause some apoplexy in the EU Commission and its European External Action Service which is supposed to be coordinating all EU countries behind a common EU defence and security policy. Yesterday, Mr Dendias referred to the UK as a country which played a key role in the Greek independence, a country with which we fought side by side in two World Wars, a permanent force and nuclear member of the UN Security Council and guarantor force in Cyprus He added: The agreement is not purely on defence as were the agreements with France, USA and the UAE, but a framework-agreement which will allow the deepening of the Greek relations with a country with which