France and Greece signed Tuesday a multibillion-euro deal for Athens to buy three French warships. The memorandum of understanding for the purchase of the Belharra frigates was inked less than two weeks after Paris was left reeling by Australia's cancellation of a contract to buy French submarines, in favour of a new defence pact with Britain and the US. "Europeans must stop being naive" regarding geopolitical competition, Macron added, in particular as Washington increasingly takes a go-it-alone approach with regards to its EU allies. The French President also lashed out at the U.S. and said “for a little more than ten years now, the United States of America has been concentrating a lot on itself and has strategic interests that are being reoriented towards China and the Pacific”. Watch the full video for more details.
