>> #306: As I understand it the idea that Greece was unprepared to enter the EU is a myth - at least in financial terms...

That's correct - the problems started later when Greece entered the straitjacket of the euro currency with disguised weak economic figures. The EU establishment was so anxious to give the impression that the euro was a new wonder milk and honey currency, by including as many countries as possible in its initial launch, that it turned a blind eye to the economic facts in Greece:      

>> Greece’s membership of the euro gave it access to billions of easy credit, which it was then incapable of paying back, leading to its current crisis...

>> Lenders took its euro membership as a stamp of creditworthiness, but the true state of its economy was in  fact far less healthy...

>> Wall Street bank helped to hide Greece's debts when it joined the euro currency... Greece paid hundreds of millions of dollars to the bank to secure its position in the single currency...

www.independent.co.uk/greece-hid-debts-when-it-joined-euro-10381926