WI Greece never joins the European Community?

One POD would be that Greece is Communist, but that deserves its own thread and I created one. But there are other possible PODs. Assume Greece becomes a capitalist democracy anyway, if not one in the 1970s and 1980s, but the accession to the EC/ EU never happens.
 
A significant issue here is exactly why the Greeks don't join. It's so obvious that they have vastly more to gain being inside the EU than outside of it. Them going Communist is indeed probably the best POD, then.

Greece IOTL might have acted a bit as a canary in the coal mine for the other, bigger PIIGS states, so if they go deeper into debt they could collapse the Euro anyway.
 
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