En mars 1975, le mensuel français Le Monde diplomatique analyse les difficultés économiques héritées de la dictature militaire auxquelles la Grèce doit faire face dans ses efforts pour réformer son économie.

On 12 June 1975, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek Prime Minister, sends Greece’s application for accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) to Garret FitzGerald, President-in-Office of the Council of the European Communities.

On 12 June 1975, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek Prime Minister, sends Greece’s application for accession to the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC) to Garret FitzGerald, President-in-Office of the Council of the European Communities.

On 12 June 1975, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek Prime Minister, sends Greece’s application for accession to the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) to Garret FitzGerald, President-in-Office of the Council of the European Communities.

On 12 June 1975, Stephanos Stathatos, Greek Ambassador to Brussels, presents to Brendan Dillon, Irish Permanent Representative to the European Communities, an official application for Greece's accession to the European Communities, of which Ireland currently holds the rotating presidency.

On 5 June 1975, Greece offically applied for membership to the European Communities. The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung sets out some negative arguments which could dog this country's accession.

On 13 June 1975, French newspaper Le Figaro comments on the official application made by Greece for accession to the European Communities and outlines the difficulties in terms of its agricultural system and budgetary matters.

In June 1975, the French cartoonist, Plantu, illustrates Greece's official application for accession to the European Communities.

On 29 January 1976, the European Commission delivers its opinion on the application for membership of the European Economic Community (EEC) by Greece.

On 6 February 1976, German weekly Die Zeit describes the concern felt by the Commission of the European Communities with regard to Greece's economic underdevelopment and the financial cost of Greek accession to the Communities.

On 9 February 1976, the Council of the European Communities states that it is in favour of Greece’s application for accession to the European Communities.

On 11 February 1976, the French newspaper Le Figaro comments on Greece's reaction to the decision of the Council of Ministers of the Nine to accept the Greek application to join the European Communities without the requirement of a pre-accession probation period.

On 11 February 1976, the French newspaper Le Monde describes the implications of the Council decision not to impose a pre-accession probationary period on Greece.

On 16 February 1976, commenting on the opening of negotiations for Greek accession to the European Communities, the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel analyses Greek economic structures.

On 16 February 1976, the Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique welcomes the positive decision taken by the Nine concerning Greece’s application for accession to the European Communities, while describing the problems raised by this decision, particularly at an institutional and agro-economic level.

On 20 October 1976, Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis explains to the Greek Parliament what the negotiations for accession to the European Communities represent for the country.

On 12 June 1975, Greece requests accession to the European Communities. In November 1976, in the monthly publication 30 jours d'Europe, Laurent Leblond describes the political and economic situation in Greece.

On 5 March 1977, writing in the French daily newspaper Le Nouveau Journal, Xenophon Zolotas, Governor of the Bank of Greece, outlines the reasons behind the Greek application for accession to the European Communities.

The negotiations for Greece’s accession to the European Communities officially began on 27 July 1976. This document, dated March 1977, reviews the situation to date.

Le 23 mai 1977, le journal La Vie Française se demande si l'adhésion de leur pays aux Communautés européennes répond vraiment aux attentes des Grecs.

In November 1977, the French monthly publication Le Monde Diplomatique analyses the attitude of Greek employers and the Greek State towards the implications of the accession of their country to the European Communities.

In 1978, Gaston Thorn, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, reviews the dangers and opportunities presented by the second enlargement of the European Communities and wonders when and under what conditions the accession of Greece should take place.

On 22 December 1978, the daily newspaper La Libre Belgique gives an account of the preparatory process for Greece’s application for accession to the European Communities and provides an initial assessment of the diplomatic negotiations.

Dans la revue fédéraliste L'Europe en formation, Georges Contogeorgis, ministre grec chargé des relations avec les Communautés européennes, fait un historique des relations entre la Grèce et les CE et analyse les perspectives d'avenir de son pays au sein de la Communauté.

In this interview, Hans-August Lücker, former Vice-President of the European Union of Christian Democrats (EUCD) and former Vice-President of the European Parliament, recalls the reluctance shown by the Greek Orthodox Church in the late 1970s to approve Greece’s accession to the European Communities.

In its Opinion of 23 May 1979 on the application submitted by Greece for accession to the European Communities, the Commission recalls that the principles of pluralist democracy and respect for human rights form part of the common heritage of the peoples of the States which constitute the European Communities and are therefore essential elements for membership of the said Communities.

On 24 May 1979, the Council of the European Communities decides to accept the application for admission of Greece to the European Economic Community (CEE) and to the European Atomic Energy Community (CEEA).

On 24 May 1979, the Council of the European Communities approves the accession of Greece to the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).