Greece’s Ministry of National Economy and Finance promotes integrating Greece’s capital market into Euronext in Greek-French forum speech

Greece’s Ministry of National Economy and Finance released a speech by Minister of National Economy and Finance and President of the Eurogroup Kyriakos Pierrakakis at the Greek-French Economic Forum, setting out priorities for deeper Greek-French economic cooperation and framing the integration of Greece’s capital market into the Euronext ecosystem as a strategic step to broaden access to international capital and support larger-scale companies. The remarks also argued for more EU-level action to overcome fragmentation in financing and investment. The speech highlighted Greece’s fiscal and labour-market metrics, including a decline in public debt from nearly 210% of GDP to 137.6% for 2026, a primary surplus of 4.9% of GDP for 2025, and unemployment falling from 27.5% at end-2013 to around 8%. On bilateral cooperation, it pointed to defence industrial participation linked to the Belharra frigate programme, including more than 70 Greek firms in Naval Group’s supply chain and industrial offsets of 25% or about EUR 200 million for the fourth frigate, “Themistocles”. It also referenced Greek-French activity across energy and infrastructure, the launch of a Euronext technology centre in Athens, and a push for a European “Savings and Investments Union” to channel savings into productive investment and reduce market fragmentation.