{"id":1796934,"date":"2026-06-24T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/2026\/06\/24\/greece-joins-pax-silica-initiative-on-ai-semiconductors-and-critical-minerals\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:00:12","slug":"greece-joins-pax-silica-initiative-on-ai-semiconductors-and-critical-minerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/2026\/06\/24\/greece-joins-pax-silica-initiative-on-ai-semiconductors-and-critical-minerals\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece joins Pax Silica initiative on AI, semiconductors and critical minerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Greece has formally joined the Pax Silica initiative, a framework aimed at strengthening the security of semiconductor and critical minerals supply chains.The initiative, promoted by the United States, seeks to deepen cooperation among allies and partners in artificial intelligence, energy and the resilience of supply chains for semiconductors and critical minerals. In Washington, it is viewed as part of a broader effort to build secure supply chains for strategically important technologies and reduce Western economies\u2019 dependence on China.<\/h3>\n<p>The declaration was signed on Tuesday at the U.S. State Department by Greece\u2019s ambassador to Washington, Antonis Alexandridis, and U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment Jacob Helberg.<\/p>\n<p>Pax Silica is described as a U.S.-led initiative designed to create more secure and resilient supply chains in critical technology sectors. Its focus is on semiconductors and critical minerals, with the aim of reducing Western countries\u2019 reliance on China.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission, Germany and Netherlands have also joined the initiative. Existing participants include Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, Israel, United Kingdom, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Sweden, Finland and India.<\/p>\n<p>Greece\u2019s accession follows the Economic Security Declaration signed with the United States last November during the P-TEC energy summit in Athens. That declaration subsequently served as the basis for the development of Pax&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naftemporiki.gr\/english\/2128547\/greece-joins-pax-silica-initiative-on-ai-semiconductors-and-critical-minerals\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=greece-joins-pax-silica-initiative-on-ai-semiconductors-and-critical-minerals\">\u0394\u0399\u0391\u0392\u0391\u03a3\u03a4\u0395 \u039f\u039b\u039f \u03a4\u039f \u0391\u03a1\u0398\u03a1\u039f \u0395\u0394\u03a9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece has formally joined the Pax Silica initiative, a framework aimed at strengthening the security of semiconductor and critical minerals supply chains.The initiative, promoted by the United States, seeks to deepen cooperation among allies and partners in artificial intelligence, energy and the resilience of supply chains for semiconductors and critical minerals. In Washington, it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1796935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1796935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellastoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}