President Tassoulas welcomes Israel-Hamas agreement on Gaza at Arraiolos meeting in Tallinn

The informal 2025 Arraiolos Group of presidents from European Union countries concluded its meeting in Tallinn on Friday, with the participation of President of the Hellenic Republic Constantine Tassoulas, invited by Estonian President Alar Karis.

At the high-level summit, there were three working meetings on the themes of "Global Security: Presidential Reflections on Emerging Threats and Future Perspectives" and "Artificial Intelligence: A Friend and Accelerator, Not an Enemy".

At the meetings, Tassoulas welcomed the first phase of the Israel-Hamas agreement by US President Trump for Gaza, and underlined the importance of all members honoring the terms of the agreement. Greece, he noted, has participated in the humanitarian corridor from Jordan to Gaza and accepted children from the Gaza Strip for care in Greek hospitals. It also stands by the two-state solution, Tassoulas reiterated, but he also expressed Greece's concern for the security situation in the West Bank and the increasing violence of settlers against Christian communities, among others.

The president also expressed Greece's unreserved support of Ukraine, and the need to boost European capacity in terms of defense.

Artificial Intelligence

In the working meeting on AI, Tassoulas underlined the National Strategy on Artificial Intelligence Greece has adopted and said it was based on four aspects: education, innovation, ethics, and public trust. "As technology keeps on developing, our ethical responsibility must also develop along with it," he noted. He referred to the creation of AI Pharos - one of the first AI Factories in Europe - and the supercomputer 'Daedalus', which will place Greece at the forefront of European digital transformation, as he said.

"AI is a remarkable achievement of the human mind, but it is missing the one thing that defines humanity more substantially: conscience, compassion, and personal will. It may simulate, predict, and decide, but it cannot provide meaning. The threat does not lie with the machinery itself, but in our subservience to it - when we relinquish the responsibility to judge and discern. Therefore, our obligation as democracies is to maintain human judgment as the final judging organ and to ensure that ethical reasoning will remain progress' compass," the Greek president added.