Konstantinos Karamanlis: Perbedaan antara revisi

Karamanlis as early as 1958 pursued an aggressive policy toward Greek membership in the EEC. He considered Greece's entry into the EEC a personal dream because he saw it as the fulfillment of what he called "Greece's European Destiny".<ref name="Greece">[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,922355,00.html Greece's Gain] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111222082717/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,922355,00.html |date=2011-12-22 }} Time Magazine Archives Quote: "While it was Rallis who hailed the new membership and its promise, much of the credit belonged to former Prime Minister and now President Constantine Caramanlis. For him, entry into the Communiy was the fulfillment of a dream, a sealing of what he calls "Greece's European destiny." In his view, being part of the democratic Western European family of nations should help ensure political stability for a country crushed by military dictatorship from 1967 to 1974."</ref> He personally lobbied European leaders, such as Germany's [[Konrad Adenauer]] and France's [[Charles de Gaulle]] followed by two years of intense negotiations with [[Brussels]].<ref name="Destination Europe">{{Cite web |url=http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13138&m=A17&aa=1&eidos=A |title=Athens News on: Destination Europe |access-date=2011-11-19 |archive-date=2007-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927080809/http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13138&m=A17&aa=1&eidos=A |dead-url=yes }}</ref><ref name="De Gaulle">{{Cite web |url=http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13182&m=A17&aa=1&eidos=S |title=Karamanlis' personal contacts with the German and French leaders (Konrad Adenauer and De Gaulle), to shift Greek foreign policy towards stronger ties with the nascent (EEC) |access-date=2011-11-19 |archive-date=2007-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927075936/http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13182&m=A17&aa=1&eidos=S |dead-url=yes }}</ref> His intense lobbying bore fruit and on 9 July 1961 his government and the Europeans signed the protocols of Greece's Treaty of Association with the European Economic Community (EEC). The signing ceremony in Athens was attended by top government delegations from the six-member bloc of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands, a precursor of the [[European Union]]. Economy Minister Aristidis Protopapadakis and Foreign Minister [[Evangelos Averoff]] were also present.<ref name="Destination Europe"/> German Vice-Chancellor [[Ludwig Erhard]] and Belgian Foreign Minister [[Paul-Henri Spaak]], a European Union pioneer and a [[Karlspreis]] winner like Karamanlis, were among the European delegates.<ref name="Destination Europe"/>

This had the profound effect of ending Greece's economic isolation and breaking its political and economic dependence on US economic and military aid, mainly through [[NATO]].<ref name="Destination Europe"/> Greece became the first European country to acquire the status of associate member of the EEC outside the six nation EEC group. In November 1962 the association treaty came into effect and envisaged the country's full membership at the EEC by 1984, after the gradual elimination of all Greek tariffs on EEC imports.<ref name="Destination Europe"/> A financial protocol clause included in the treaty provided for loans to Greece subsidised by the community of about $300&nbsp;million between 1962 and 1972 to help increase the competitiveness of the Greek economy in anticipation of Greece's full membership. The Community's financial aid package as well as the protocol of accession were suspended during the 1967–74 junta years and Greece was expelled from the EEC.<ref name="Destination Europe"/><ref name="Karamanlis Time"/> As well, during the dictatorship, Greece resigned its membership in the [[Council of Europe]] fearing embarrassing investigations by the Council, following torture allegations.<ref name="Karamanlis Time">[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,879413-2,00.html Time magazine archives] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081213130517/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,879413-2,00.html |date=2008-12-13 }}