Costas Karamanlis Quotes

"The EU recognized Turkey as a candidate country in 1999 without expressing any such reservation. The debate is legitimate but you cannot ignore the past."
-Costas Karamanlis

"The EU recognized Turkey as a candidate country in 1999 without expressing any such reservation. The debate is legitimate but you cannot ignore the past, ... The EU must maintain its credibility."
-Costas Karamanlis

"One year after the Athens Olympic Games and the European football championship, the Greek basketball team has climbed to the highest peak of Europe once again."
-Costas Karamanlis

"We have to live together and make the best of it. They should eventually be permitted to join the European Union. A Europeanized Turkey is in everybody's interest."
-Costas Karamanlis

"These institutions, the wider Innovation Zone, and the foundation of an International University, are very significant steps towards establishing the Thessaloniki region as a pole of attracting scientists from Southeastern Europe and at the same time establishing the region as the base of new enterprises in the new technology sectors."
-Costas Karamanlis

"The government aims to establish the Thessaloniki region as a pole of attracting scientists from Southeastern Europe and becoming the base of new enterprises in the new technologies sector."
-Costas Karamanlis

"There are not two Greeces."
-Costas Karamanlis

"I want to stress that Greece, since last night, is on the lips of everyone in the world who follows this mass and magical sport called football."
-Costas Karamanlis