France–Greece relations, or Franco-Greek relations, are foreign relations between

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and

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

. In

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, both countries established diplomatic relations in 1833, three years after

Greek Independence The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829. In 1826, the Greeks were assisted ...

. France and Greece, due to strong cultural and historical ties, have had a traditionally strong and

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relationship and strategic alliance for decades and today enjoy strong diplomatic relations also. The two countries are EU,

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and UN member states and cooperate in many other multilateral organizations, such as the

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, the

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and the

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. In September 2021, the two countries signed a military agreement according to which each country is engaged to the military aid of the other in the event of a war with a third country.

History

Relations stretch back to

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, when

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colonies (see Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul) were established in pre-Roman

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, the most important of which being

Massilia Massalia (; ) was an ancient Greek colony (''apoikia'') on the Mediterranean coast, east of the Rhône. Settled by the Ionians from Phocaea in 600 BC, this ''apoikia'' grew up rapidly, and its population set up many outposts for trading in mode ...

(Greek: Μασσαλία, French: Marseilles), located in southeastern France (which today is the country's oldest city, as well as the second largest, by population). From Massilia and other Greek colonies, Greek goods and elements of the Greek civilization, including coins, spread inland (see Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul). The Gauls in turn became a part of the Hellenistic world proper after the 3rd century BC, following the

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and their establishment in

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. In the

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, French crusaders played a major role in the

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and set up several states in Greece following the dissolution of the

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in 1204. This began the period known as ''

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'' ("Frankocracy") in Greece. The main French Crusader states were the

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and the

Duchy of Athens The Duchy of Athens (Greek language, Greek: Δουκᾶτον Ἀθηνῶν, ''Doukaton Athinon''; Catalan language, Catalan: ''Ducat d'Atenes'') was one of the Crusader states set up in Greece after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during ...

, while the other West European states were mostly Italian ( Lombard, Venetian or Genoese). In the modern age, the French

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and the ideas of the French Revolution influenced the main thinkers of the

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, such as

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(who lived in France) and

Rigas Feraios Rigas Feraios ( , sometimes ''Rhegas Pheraeos''; ) or Velestinlis (Βελεστινλής , also transliterated ''Velestinles''); 1757 – 24 June 1798), born as Antonios Rigas Velestinlis (), was a Greek writer, political thinker and revo ...

, and formed the ideological groundwork for the

Greek War of Independence The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829. In 1826, the Greeks were assisted ...

. French troops also occupied the

Ionian Islands The Ionian Islands (Modern Greek: , ; Ancient Greek, Katharevousa: , ) are a archipelago, group of islands in the Ionian Sea, west of mainland Greece. They are traditionally called the Heptanese ("Seven Islands"; , ''Heptanēsa'' or , ''Heptanē ...

during the

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, paving the way for the first independent Greek state of modern times, the

Septinsular Republic The Septinsular Republic (; ), also known as the Republic of the Seven United Islands, was an oligarchic republic that existed from 1800 to 1807 under nominal Russian and Ottoman sovereignty in the Ionian Islands (Corfu, Paxoi, Lefkada, Cephalon ...

. During the Greek War of Independence that began in 1821, French

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played an important role, providing much-needed military expertise and propagating the cause of Greek independence abroad. Among the most important was

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, an organizer of the modern Greek regular army. French ships also took part in the crucial

Battle of Navarino The Battle of Navarino was a naval battle fought on 20 October (O.S. 8 October) 1827, during the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), in Navarino Bay (modern Pylos), on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the Ionian Sea. Allied ...

, which secured Greek independence, and a French expeditionary corps landed in Greece in 1828 to help clear the country of remaining Ottoman garrisons. Along with Great Britain and Russia, France became one of the guarantor powers of the independent

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. This was reflected in Greek domestic politics during the reign of King

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, where a

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vied for influence with the rival

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and

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parties. Britain gradually assumed the dominant position in Greek affairs after the 1860s, but France still retained a measure of influence, especially on cultural and military affairs. French military missions were called to modernize the Greek military (in 1884–87 and 1911–14). Until the first decades of the 20th century, the

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was the only compulsory foreign language in Greek schools, being the most spoken foreign language among Greeks. France also played a leading role in the effort to bring Greece into

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, involving itself in the "

National Schism The National Schism (), also sometimes called The Great Division, was a series of disagreements between Constantine I of Greece, King Constantine I and Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos over Kingdom of Greece, Greece's foreign policy from 19 ...

" on the side of Prime Minister

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. French troops, working together with the Venizelists confronted against the royalist forces in Athens, and finally, in June 1917, helped depose the Germanophile King

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. After the Great Fire of Thessaloniki, a French architectural commission under

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took over a modern city plan for the city. The pro-Greek policies of the French government, such as the pro-French policies of Greece, however, were reversed after Venizelos' electoral defeat in November 1920 and the return of Constantine, after which France supported

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's Turkish nationalists in their

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against Greece. The two nations were Allies also during

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. Some Greeks were imprisoned in subcamps of the

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in German-occupied France. Many political exiles, mostly leftists, found also refuge in France during the

Greek military junta The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels was a right-wing military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels with CIA backing overthrew the caretaker government a month before scheduled elections wh ...

Bilateral relations and cooperation

France and Greece were allies during both

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, the

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and the

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, and have never been adversaries of each other. The two countries have had a friendly and strategic alliance for decades and are full members of many international organizations, including the UN, the

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and

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. Greece has been a full member of the

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organization since 2004. There are regular high-level visits between the two countries, and frequent contacts between the two heads of state. France and Greece are co-operating in many fields, including cultural, scientific, judicial and military. Several Greek cities, and most notably Argos and Athens, are the seats for French Schools of Archaeological and Historical studies, where students from both countries study and co-operate in the fields of Archaeology and History. The fact that 3 French Presidents (

De Gaulle Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free France, Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Re ...

Sarkozy Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa ( ; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. In 2021, he was found guilty of having tried to bribe a judge in 2014 to obtain information ...

and Hollande) have been the unique foreign leaders (along with US Eisenhower and Bush) in the history of modern Greece that have had the honor to address the

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is a clear certification of the long live connection between the two nations.

Military cooperation

France and Greece have a very close military cooperation, with both countries annually participating in various military drills and exercises in the Eastern Mediterranean, along with other countries like

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and

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. Such exercises include the Medusa 2016, and the

Operation Bright Star Exercise Bright Star is a series of biennial combined and joint military exercises led by the United States and Egypt. The exercises began in 1980, rooted in the 1977 Camp David Accords. After its signing, the United States Armed Forces and th ...

. Additionally, the

French Navy The French Navy (, , ), informally (, ), is the Navy, maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of History of France, France. It is among the largest and most powerful List of navies, naval forces i ...

and the

Hellenic Navy The Hellenic Navy (HN; , abbreviated ΠΝ) is the Navy, naval force of Greece, part of the Hellenic Armed Forces. The modern Greek navy historically hails from the naval forces of various Aegean Islands, which fought in the Greek War of Independ ...

are cooperating closely on matters concerning the security of the broader Mediterranean region, with the flagship of the French Navy, the aircraft carrier Charles DeGaulle occasionally paying visits to Greece's

Souda Bay Naval Base Crete Naval Base (, ''Nafstathmos Kritis'') is a major naval base of the Hellenic Navy and NATO at Souda Bay in Crete, Greece. Formally known in NATO as Naval Support Activity, Souda Bay (NSA-Souda Bay), and more commonly in Greece as the Souda ...

, the only deep-sea port capable of supporting the largest aircraft carriers in the entire region. Greece has in modern times bought a number of French weapons systems: the '' La Combattante IIa'', '' IIIa'', and '' IIIb'' fast attack craft, the

AMX-30 The AMX-30 is a French main battle tank designed by Ateliers de construction d'Issy-les-Moulineaux (AMX, then Nexter, GIAT) and first delivered to the French Army in August 1966. The first five tanks were issued to the 501st ''Régiment de Chars ...

tanks and

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personnel carriers, and the Mirage F1C and

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fighter jets. In 2009, the purchase of six

FREMM The European multi-purpose frigate or FREMM (; ) is a Franco-Italian family of warships designed by Naval Group and Fincantieri. This surface combatant is known in France as the ''Aquitaine'' class (17 units planned, of which 9 were later cance ...

frigates was announced, but never realised due to the

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. In 2019, negotiations began between the Greek and French governments for the purchase of BELH@RRA-type frigates. On 12 September 2020, Greek Prime Minister

Kyriakos Mitsotakis Kyriakos Mitsotakis (, ; born 4 March 1968) is a Greek politician currently serving as the prime minister of Greece since July 2019, except for a month between May and June 2023. Mitsotakis has been president of the New Democracy (Greece), New ...

announced an arms deal with France for the purchase of

Dassault Rafale The Dassault Rafale (, literally meaning "gust of wind", or "burst of fire" in a more military sense) is a French Twinjet, twin-engine, Canard (aeronautics), canard delta wing, Multirole combat aircraft, multirole fighter aircraft designed and ...

fighter aircraft and

multipurpose frigates, as well as the recruitment of 15,000 additional troops, amid tensions with Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean. The 2.5-billion-euro arms deal includes 18 Rafale jets, 12 of them made by Dassault. In September 2021, Greece and France reached an agreement for the supply of FDI frigates and Gowind-class corvettes to the

Energy cooperation

The two countries also cooperate in the energy sector and are members of the East Mediterranean Gas Forum which aims at promoting regional cooperation on energy affairs.

Greece France Alliance

The slogan "Grèce-France-Alliance" (also in Greek: ''Hellas Gallía Symmachía, Ελλάς Γαλλία Συμμαχία''), traces its roots back to the political and diplomatic support aid France provided to Greece and

Constantine Karamanlis Konstantinos G. Karamanlis (, ; 8 March 1907 – 23 April 1998) was a Greek statesman who was the four-time Prime Minister of Greece and two-term president of the Third Hellenic Republic. A towering figure of Greek politics, his political caree ...

at the time of the return to democracy in 1974, and nowadays is often used to denote the deep historical, cultural and political relations and close diplomatic cooperation between the two countries.

High level visits

* 1954; Official visit of Greek Prime Minister

Alexandros Papagos Alexandros Papagos (; 9 December 1883 – 4 October 1955) was a Greek military officer who led the Hellenic Army in World War II and the later stages of the subsequent Greek Civil War. The only Greek army career officer to rise to the rank of Fie ...

to Paris. * 1963; State Visit of President of the French Republic

Charles de Gaulle Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free France, Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Re ...

to Athens and Thessaloniki. * 1975; Official Visit of the French President

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to Greece. * 1979; Second visit of the French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing to Athens. * 1982; Official Visit of President of the French Republic

François Mitterrand François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996) was a French politician and statesman who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that position in the history of France. As a former First ...

to Athens. * November 2000; Official visit of President of the French Republic.

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to Athens. * April 2003; Official visit of President of the French Republic Jacques Chirac to Thessalonica. * June 2008; Official Visit of President of the French Republic

Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa ( ; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. In 2021, he was found guilty of having tried to bribe a judge in 2014 to obtain information ...

to Athens. * February 2013; Official Visit of President of the French Republic

François Hollande François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (; born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017. Before his presidency, he was First Secretary of the Socialist Party (France), First Secretary of th ...

to Athens. * October 2015; State visit of President of the French Republic Francois Hollande to Greece. * September 2017; Official Visit of President of the French Republic

Emmanuel Macron Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (; born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017. He was Ministry of Economy and Finance (France), Minister of Economics, Industr ...

to Athens.

Resident diplomatic missions

* France has an embassy in

Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...

and a consulate-general in

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...

. * Greece has an embassy in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

and a consulate-general in

Marseille Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the ...

.Embassy of Greece in France (in French and Greek)
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References

External links

French Foreign Ministry about relations with Greece

Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with France
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