This chapter prioritizes the strategic considerations of the actors and offers a more nuanced picture of Greece’s accession to the EEC, overcoming idealized readings of the past. In his effort to make the reluctant Europeans accept Greece’s bid for membership, Karamanlis did not hesitate to identify his policies with Western interests to such an extent that any setback would have severe repercussions not only for Greece but for the Community as well. The Nine acknowledged that accepting Greece into the Community would be the only way to influence the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean and save Greece from neutralism. By capitalizing on the Europeans’ Cold War concerns, Karamanlis made it impossible for the Nine to rebuff Greece. Greece’s admission to the EEC signified the first time that the Community members collectively put aside their narrower economic considerations and exerted their influence beyond their borders in order to respond to geopolitical imperatives. This chapter also examines US perceptions of the special Franco-Greek relationship and the superpower’s stance on Greece’s turn to Europe. It is argued that the US government tended to favour Greece’s European path and EEC’s stabilizing role in the area, but, of course, its support was not unconditional.