Eirini Karamouzi explores the history of the European Economic Community (EEC) in the turbulent decade of the 1970s and especially the Community's response to the fall of the Greek dictatorship and the country's application for EEC membership. The book constitutes the first multi-archival study on the second enlargement of the EEC.

Introduction 1. Democracy and European Integration: Greece's strategy of Democratisation 2. Why did the Nine say 'Yes'? 3. And the Talks Kick off 4. Stagnation 5. Closing the Gap 6. The German Presidency: The Race Against Time 7. Unfinished Business Conclusion

Eirini Karamouzi is a Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Sheffield, UK. She was previously a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute, a Lecturer in European studies and history at Yale University, USA and she held a Pinto postdoctoral fellowship at LSE IDEAS.