ABSTRACT

The contributors collected here discuss the patterns of continuity and change, success and failure observed in seven policy areas - environment, social regulation, regional policy, the single market, agriculture, EMU and foreign policy - in order to investigate how policy formulated and implemented in Greece has changed as a result of EU membership; why Greek authorities have managed to implement EU policy more successfully in some policy areas than in others and whether Greek public opinion vis-à-vis the EU changed over time.

This book argues that although the widely-held belief that Greece is a laggard in a number of policy areas is not inaccurate, the pattern of Greek membership of the EU is much more complex, not least because it contains success stories. It will be of interest to students and researchers of the European Union, public policy and Greek politics.

part |15 pages

Introduction

chapter |13 pages

Greece

An introduction to patterns of EU membership

part |26 pages

Regulative policies

part |35 pages

Constituent policies

chapter |9 pages

Greek foreign policy since 1974

From dissent to consensus

chapter |24 pages

Greece and Economic and Monetary Union

Whither Europeanisation?

part |37 pages

Epilogue

chapter |26 pages

From accession to the euro

The evolution of Greek public attitudes toward European integration, 1981–2001

chapter |9 pages

Conclusion

Europeanisation and the Greek policy style: national or sectoral?