Greece and European Integration

Signs Greece's accession treaty as the minister responsible for national economic affairs.

Signs Greece's Treaty of Accession to the European Communities at the Zappeion in Athens.

Signs Greece's accession treaty as Foreign Minister alongside Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis.

Heads the government when Greece becomes the tenth member of the European Communities.

Serves as president when Greece enters the European Communities as their tenth member state.

Represents newly admitted Greece at its first year of European Council participation.

Represents Greece at his first European Council after taking office as prime minister.

Represents Greece as leaders consider economic recovery and Community budget questions.

Represents Greece as leaders address enlargement, budgetary disputes and future Community development.

Represents Greece as leaders adopt the Solemn Declaration on European Union.

Supports Greece's participation in the Stuttgart declaration on closer European cooperation.

Papandreou takes the Community chair as Greece assumes responsibility for its first six-month Council Presidency.

Hosts the European Council as leaders confront unresolved disputes over spending, agriculture and budget contributions.

Represents Greece as leaders settle major budget disputes and revive institutional reform.

Supports the decision to examine reforms aimed at strengthening European cooperation.

Represents Greece as leaders prepare for treaty reform and completion of the internal market.

Represents Greece as leaders consider institutional reform and the internal-market programme.

Participates as leaders decide to convene an intergovernmental conference on treaty reform.

Represents Greece as negotiations on the Single European Act approach completion.

Heads the Greek government when Greece joins the signing of the Single European Act.

Represents Greek foreign policy as the Single European Act is signed.

Represents Greece as leaders discuss implementation of the internal market and Community development.

Represents Greece as leaders review economic policy, enlargement and the Community's external role.

Heads the Greek government when the Single European Act enters into force.

Serves as Foreign Minister when the Single European Act begins operating.

Supports the compromise strengthening Community resources and expenditure discipline.

Represents Greece at the special summit that reaches agreement on Community financing and agricultural reform.

Represents Greece as leaders discuss monetary integration and establish the Delors Committee.

Supports work examining concrete stages toward economic and monetary union.

Greece returns to the Council chair under Papandreou, giving Athens responsibility for steering the Community agenda through December.

Hosts the European Council during Greece's Presidency as leaders discuss the internal market and monetary cooperation.

Papandreou backs the Madrid timetable beginning the first phase of monetary union in July 1990.

Supports the timetable for beginning the first stage of economic and monetary union in July 1990.

Represents Greece as leaders consider monetary union and political transformation in Europe.

Supports preparations for future intergovernmental negotiations on economic and monetary union.

Represents Greece as leaders discuss German unification and Europe's changing political order.

Mitsotakis joins the Rome summit as governments design the institutions and timetable for the next monetary-union phase.

Represents Greek economic policy during negotiations on the institutional design of monetary union.

Represents Greece as leaders open intergovernmental conferences on political union and monetary union.

Helps launch negotiations on treaty provisions for economic and monetary union.

Supports the opening of treaty negotiations on European political union.

Represents Greece as leaders review progress in the political and monetary union conferences.

Joins the Luxembourg European Council while Greece helps shape the emerging treaty settlement.

Advances Greek positions on convergence and the future monetary-union framework.

Supports Greek positions on the political and foreign-policy provisions under negotiation.

Advances Greece's financial interests while the Twelve examine the design of economic and monetary union.

Presses Greece's diplomatic objectives during the Luxembourg review of treaty negotiations.

Represents Greece as the Maastricht European Council opens the decisive negotiations on European Union.

Represents Greece when leaders begin the final political bargaining over the Union treaty.

Supports the final Maastricht settlement establishing European Union and the framework for economic and monetary union.

Supports the final economic and monetary provisions agreed at Maastricht.

Helps conclude the political and foreign-policy provisions of the Maastricht settlement.

Supports Greece's approach to convergence criteria and the timetable for monetary union.

Supports the foreign-policy framework accepted by Greece when the Maastricht settlement is completed.

Signs the Treaty on European Union for Greece as Minister of National Economy.

Signs the Treaty on European Union for Greece as Foreign Minister.

Represents Greece as leaders review Maastricht ratification, economic policy and enlargement prospects.

Heads Greece when its ratification notification is lodged with the depositary government.

Heads the Greek government when Greece signs agreements to accede to the Schengen framework.

Represents Greece as it signs accession instruments connected with the Schengen agreements.

Represents Greece as leaders address Maastricht ratification and future Community financing.

Represents Greece as leaders consider Danish concerns and the wider timetable for bringing Maastricht into force.

Contributes to Greece's position as leaders finalise the Edinburgh response to Danish concerns.

Represents Greece as leaders establish conditions for future enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe.

Supports criteria linking future accession to democracy, market economics and acceptance of Union obligations.

Serves as Foreign Minister when Greece becomes a member of the newly established European Union.

Returns as Greek prime minister shortly before Maastricht enters into force and the European Union is established.

Heads the Greek government when the Maastricht Treaty enters into force and the European Union is established.

Begins Greece's third rotating Council Presidency and its first under the European Union.

Papoulias coordinates ministerial diplomacy during Greece's 1994 Presidency, which culminates in the Corfu summit.

Hosts the signing of accession treaties with Austria, Finland, Sweden and Norway during the Corfu summit.

Hosts the European Council as leaders address enlargement, institutional development and external policy.

Supports the Greek Presidency as the Corfu summit prepares future institutional reform.

Represents Greece as leaders develop a pre-accession strategy for Central and Eastern Europe.

Supports the strategy designed to prepare associated countries for eventual membership.

Represents Greece as leaders choose euro as the name of the future single currency.

Supports the changeover scenario establishing the timetable for the single currency.

Represents Greece as the intergovernmental conference opens negotiations that later produce the Amsterdam Treaty.

Represents Greek diplomacy at the opening of treaty-reform negotiations.

Represents Greece as leaders review progress in institutional reform and enlargement.

Represents Greece as leaders reach political agreement on the Amsterdam Treaty.

Pangalos signs Amsterdam's reform treaty, committing Greece to changes in institutions, employment policy and justice cooperation.

Oversees economic policy as the drachma joins the exchange-rate mechanism with a central rate of 357 per ECU.

Heads the government when the drachma enters the European Monetary System exchange-rate mechanism.

Supports Greece's convergence strategy aimed at qualifying for later entry into the euro area.

Amsterdam's institutional reforms become legally effective while Simitis leads the Greek government.

Represents Greece as leaders take major enlargement decisions and recognise Turkey as a candidate country.

Leads Greece as it requests removal of its monetary-union derogation and seeks entry into the euro area.

Represents Greece as leaders launch the Lisbon strategy for employment, innovation and economic reform.

Sees Greece's convergence programme accepted as sufficient for euro adoption from January 2001.

Represents Greece as the Council confirms that the country meets the conditions to adopt the euro.

Represents Greece as leaders negotiate institutional changes intended to prepare the Union for enlargement.

Greece enters the euro area under Simitis, becoming its twelfth participating state.

Papandreou signs the Nice Treaty, backing institutional changes designed for enlargement.

Represents Greece as leaders review economic reform, employment and enlargement.

Represents Greece as leaders launch the Convention on the Future of Europe.

Supports the declaration opening a wider debate on the Union's future constitutional structure.

Oversees the physical currency changeover from the drachma to euro notes and coins.

Heads the Greek government when euro banknotes and coins replace the drachma in everyday use.

Supports completion of accession negotiations with ten countries scheduled to join the Union in 2004.

Papandreou steers foreign-policy work during the 2003 Greek Presidency, including enlargement and Western Balkan priorities.

Begins Greece's fourth rotating Council Presidency with enlargement and Balkan integration among its priorities.

Participates as ten accession countries sign their treaties during the Greek Presidency.

Hosts an informal European Council during the Greek Presidency as leaders discuss the future of Europe.

Hosts the European Council that strengthens the Union's commitment to the Western Balkans.

Supports a framework bringing Western Balkan countries closer to eventual European integration.

Heads the Greek government when ten new member states join the European Union.

Signs the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe on behalf of Greece.

Signs the European Constitutional Treaty alongside Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis.

Bakoyannis signs Lisbon alongside Karamanlis, representing Greek diplomacy at the treaty ceremony.

Karamanlis adds Greece's signature to the Lisbon reform treaty on behalf of the government.

Lisbon's institutional reforms become binding across the Union while Papandreou serves as Greek prime minister.