This NATO Summit is an opportunity to reaffirm the significance of the Euro-atlantic bond, which was tested over the last four years. It also serves as an opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to our shared values, principles and the unity of the alliance.
We face a series of extremely complex challenges, which require that we readjust the strategy of our alliance. Covid has proven how vulnerable our societies are to a virus, which is not even visible to the naked eye. Climate change, apart from its economic and social repercussions, will also have a major impact on security matters, as it will encourage migratory flows.
And, of course, authoritarian regimes will continue to use their hybrid arsenal in order to weaken our democratic institutions.
In the face of all this, the NATO 2030 agenda gives a series of substantive answers.
Greece is a pillar of stability in the Southeastern Mediterranean. It is a country that even during the difficult times of the economic crisis steadily spent over 2% of its GDP on defence expenditures. As it exits, having become stronger, the crisis that troubled it during the last decade, Greece invests increased resources in its military capabilities so that it can be even more reliable in its obligations vis-a-vis the alliance.
