Constantine Karamanlis. The mark which he left, both in Greece and on the world scene in general, will not be effaced for a very long time". On January 1st 1981, the day Greece joined the EEC, Constantine Karamanlis said: "...We have confidence both in Europe and in Greece. We have decided to all be Europeans, as Churchill would say, and to all remain Greeks, as Shelley would say. For, to quote Isocrates, the Greeks are not those who are born in Greece but those who espouse the Classical ...