Four years have passed since the signing of the Georgia-EU Association Agreement
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Four years have passed since the signing of the historic Association Agreement deal between Georgia and the EU.
Georgia has received more than €400 million in financial support from the EU since the signing of the agreement on June 27, 2014, the Georgian Foreign Ministry says.
The signing of the agreement has moved Georgia-EU relations to a new stage and began Georgia’s political and economic integration with the EU,” the Georgian Foreign Ministry says.
Today marks a truly historic date, 4th anniversary since the signing of Association Agreeement with the European Union - advancing #GEO-#EU relations to a qualitatively new level and making irreversible our European integration process pic.twitter.com/YdzejUaoU6
— David Zalkaliani (@DZalkaliani) June 27, 2018
The 500 million people EU market opened up for Georgian products in 2014, which boosted Georgia-EU trade-economic cooperation, including the export of Georgian products to the EU,” the Foreign Ministry stated.
The Foreign Ministry says that Georgia has progressed much in terms of legal and institutional integration with the EU and has become a member of Europe’s energy union.
Today marks the 4th anniversary since the signing of the Association Agreement between #Georgia and the European Union. All steps taken over these years make Georgia a European state, bringing it closer to the ultimate goal of full-scale membership of the European family.
— Mamuka Bakhtadze (@BakhtadzeMamuka) June 27, 2018
Georgians can now travel visa free to the EU’s Schengen Zone and Georgia has launched high-level dialogue with the EU on security and other issues,” the Foreign Ministry reports.
The Foreign Ministry says that the Association Agreement has strengthened European values in Georgia and vital reforms have been carried out for human rights protection, the development of democratic institutions, the rule of law, against corruption and organised crime, border management, agriculture and environmental protection.
Today is one of the most important days for Georgia on its European Union (EU) integration path as the country’s Association Agreement (AA) with the EU is fully and officially coming into force.
Last night the EU Foreign Affairs Council announced its decision to end the procedures needed for ratification of the EU-Georgia AA deal. The Council said the Agreement would come into force on the first day of July 2016.
This afternoon Usupashvili announced Belgium – the final EU state to sign the Georgia-EU deal – had penned the agreement this morning. Through this step, the Georgia-EU AA ratification process was completed.
The Austrian National Council has ratified the Association Agreement (AA) between Georgia and the European Union (EU).
The new format of Georgia-EU relations will include a dialogue with the representation of the Prime Minister of Georgia and the President of the European Commission.
The seventh meeting of the EU-Georgia Parliamentary Association Committee (PAC) is being held in Tbilisi on September 18-19.
The European Union has decided to allocate additional €6 million for its Erasmus+ program in Georgia, which is the EU programme 2014-2020 for education, training, youth and sport.
Achievements of a European Union and United Nations programme that aimed to train law professionals and improve access to legal aid have been celebrated this week.