Chapter 7 Greece and the EU: Promoting the idea of sustainable development. Easy to plan, hard to achieve

Abstract

Even though Greece is today one of the oldest EU members, it has often been criticized as a ‘laggard’ in the process of European Integration. This critic also applies on its Environmental Policy. While the negotiations for Greece's accession to the European Economic Community were fervent¹ and their results mostly welcomed by the Greek people, a ‘slow start’ was the reality. The then newly elected Socialist government had adopted a non-amicable stance against Euro-Atlantic institutions² (at least on a rhetoric level) which also had a significant effect on the country's Europeanization.

Citation

Grigoris, T. and Gerasimos, R. (2011), "Chapter 7 Greece and the EU: Promoting the idea of sustainable development. Easy to plan, hard to achieve", Leonard, L. and Botetzagias, I. (Ed.) Sustainable Politics and the Crisis of the Peripheries: Ireland and Greece (Advances in Ecopolitics, Vol. 8), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 141-159. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2041-806X(2011)0000008010