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Cyprus and France sign strategic partnership vowing a more sovereign European defence

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.

Reported Editor-read Cyprus Mail, 15 December 2025

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.

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

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