The European Commission gives Georgia additional time
Rapp said the commission is “very interested” in Georgia’s “tenacious, deep and comprehensive” work on priorities.
Europe The Commission has extended the time of the next assessment on how Georgia fulfills the important priorities for its candidacy for EU membership. The goal is to give Georgia more time to implement those requirements.
Directorate of expansion of the commissionflour representative Michael Rapp on July 13, he said that the purpose of the delay is to “allow time for Tbilisi to work carefully” to gain EU candidate status.
The evaluation will be next year
The Commission was supposed to assess the implementation of requirements initially in December of this year, the time was moved to 2023.
Rapp said that the commission is “very interested” in Georgia’s “tenacious, deep and thorough” work on the priorities.
According to him, EU officials in this South Caucasus country political they do not want to “hurry up” Georgia to implement the 12-point program of Brussels in the background of disputes.
Rondeli Foundation in Tbilisi Europe Director of the Research Center Kakha Gogolashvili and told RFE/RL that the delay is a sad fact for Georgia, on the one hand, because “all the recommendations could have been easily implemented according to the schedule.”
“On the other hand, well news maybe – because in fact, we cannot fulfill all 12 points by the end of the year”, – he added to his words.
Objections
A series of demonstrations were held in Tbilisi, tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest against the government’s failure to carry out the required reforms, as the opposition said. protest they did.
Protesters Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvilithe resignation of the new “national they demanded the formation of the government.
European Union Ukraine and although he announced Moldova as a candidate for membership of the union, he did not rush to Georgia.
Garibashvili says that the government is “mobilized” to fulfill the demands of Brussels “so that we get the candidate status as soon as possible”.
to the conditions of the European Commission political include ending polarization, progress towards media freedom, judicial and electoral reforms, and “de-oligarchization”.
According to opinion polls, despite Russian threats, at least 80 percent of the Georgian population supports the EU, NATOsupports membership plans.