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# Cyprus and France sign strategic partnership vowing a more sovereign European defence
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-12-15-cyprus-france-strategic-partnership/
- Published: 2025-12-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-08T12:01:29.000Z
- Description: Presidents Christodoulides and Macron signed a ten chapter Cyprus France strategic partnership in Paris, pledging to use SAFE and other EU instruments and build a European Union that is "more sovereign" and able to act autonomously.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [Cyprus Mail, 15 December 2025](https://cyprus-mail.com/2025/12/15/cyprus-france-sign-new-strategic-partnership?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not commit any specific euro figure or named defence programme, only a framework of political and industrial cooperation.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-07\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)