French Ambassador to Greece Christophe Chantepy sent a message of support and hope that Greece will exit the crisis in 2016, at an event held on Tuesday at the ambassador’s residence to celebrate the New Year.

As he pointed out, in 2016, as in 2015, France will continue to support Greece, said the French envoy noting that Europe can’t exist without Greece and Greece can’t exist without Europe.

He also  stressed that Greece should continue with the implementation of the harsh but necessary reforms with France’s assistance as was the case with the signing of July 13 agreement. He particularly referred to the reform in the social security system as well as to the modernisation of the public administration.

“We will continue together the common strategy”, he said and made a special reference to the agreement between French President Francois Hollande and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during Hollande’s visit to Athens last October.

Chantepy referred to the agreement for the climate signed in Paris last December and the agreement for the nuclear control in Iran as hopeful messages for the new year.