Greece and France celebrated the procurement section of a strategic defense deal signed in September 2021 with an event on Thursday on board the "Battleship Georgios Averof", permanently docked as a museum at Paleo Faliro, the coastal suburb south of Athens.

Information has been circulating on the internet for the last few hours that Greece has accepted the French proposal for four French Belharra frigates and two modernized La Fayette frigates until the first are built.