What? The Greeks, the authors of democracy, want to exercise their sovereignty and not let "The New World Order" push them around?
The European Union always aspired to be a “world state”, and not a genuine confederation of equals with proportionate representation. Organized more on the order of the United Nations, there was never any push for a relative uniformity of legal code, but was mostly a conglomeration of beggars who had attached themselves to rich donor states, in some lopsided application of charity. It certainly restrained Germany from getting so much wealth accumulated, that they could then easily fund a war of aggression and annexation, once envisioned for the Third Reich. But this time, they were going to do it smarter.
Which is exactly the same thing that the Russian Federation is now doing, trying to re-create the old Soviet Empire.