On 21 April 1967, the coup d’état in Greece brings to power a military junta known as the ‘regime of the Greek colonels’ and led by (from left to right) General Georgios Zoitakis, Regent; Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior; and Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos, Prime Minister.

On 2 June 1967, the European Parliament condemns the installation of a dictatorial military regime in Greece and calls for the suspension of the Association Agreement between the European Economic Community (EEC) and Greece pending a return to democratic values in the country.

On his return from Athens in September 1974, Cornelis Berkhouwer, President of the European Parliament, gives his impressions of the possible accession of Greece to the European Economic Community (EEC), in the monthly publication 30 jours d'Europe.