Cyprus will utilise the €1.18 billion from the EU Safe programme over a period of five years to cover defence needs and enhance the country’s role in the European security system, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on Friday.
Addressing the frogmen graduation ceremony at Evangelos Florakis naval base, Palmas said a priority was strengthening defence diplomacy through the upgrading of collaboration with European partners and friendly countries.
The aim, he
