The extent of the damage inflicted by the European Union on the collective subconscious of the Greeks is evident in two words relentlessly used by the Brussels Directorate, words that the corrupt and Hellenized pseudo-elite of Greece never employ: Enlargement and Integration.
The EU maintains a specific portfolio for enlargement—namely, continuous expansion—entrusted to a Commissioner. This indicates that at the core of the EU lies an imperialistic element, albeit with a different façade.
They do not call it annexation or conquest. They term it integration or enlargement, implying the subjugation of new territories, populations, states, and nations to the EU.