A special session in Parliament on Thursday afternoon celebrated Greece’s 40th anniversary since joining the European Union, with the building’s facade on Syntagma lit up and speeches by politicians including European Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas, ANA reports.
Schinas called Greece’s membership a “major historic achievement of Greeks,” which he said, “may possibly account for the greatest achievement after Greece’s Independence.” Joining the EU, he pointed out, placed Greece firmly in the forefront of European integration.
In the 40 years of its membership, Greece he said “achieved more than it had achieved in the previous 160 years of its modern history,” and in the present “it remains an example and an absolute institutional model for friends and enemies in the greater geographical neighborhood – a pillar of stability and a model of democracy.”
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