How do you pronounce them?

[HJ]

I would guess that German pronounciation of the Greek words tend to be more similar to the authentic Greek one, as English as a language tends to warp a lot of the words due to the differences in the way the words are written and pronounced.
In any case, Greek seem very European to me. Not western or northern European, but eastern European for sure (nothing like England, that's certain, but Europe doesn't stop there either). I guess that is not what you had in mind when you were thinking about the "Europeans" in general.

In any case, I'm not trying to offend, I was just wondering what brought you to that conclusion. As an insider, it's interesting when you hear such comments about something what you take for granted.