Prime Minister of Georgia: "If the West does not grant us the status of an EU candidate country, this will be its strategic mistake"

The Georgian authorities provided the European Commission with a full report on the work done in the country. Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said that in the current situation in the world, ignoring Georgia would be a strategic mistake for the West. According to him, obtaining the status of an EU candidate country will help to reduce polarization in Georgia by at least half. critical differences between the government and the parliamentary opposition.

The European Commission will soon present a report on how Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova are moving towards EU membership. Brussels believes that Georgia has fully complied with 3 out of 12 recommendations for obtaining candidate status. The EU noted that the country should focus on political depolarization, judicial reform, deoligarchization, and freedom of the media.

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