Time in Tbilisi: April 20, 2024 13:37
Ten years have passed since the creation of the EU Eastern Partnership format, uniting six Eastern European countries: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine to support democracy, prosperity and stability in the region.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry says that the country has used all the opportunities offered by the format.
We have signed the Association Agreement and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area deal with the EU, as well as the visa-free agreement with the EU. We are members of an energy unity. We have strengthened sectoral integration with the EU and got involved in the trans-European transport network. Georgia and the EU have unique formats of a high-level dialogue and a strategic dialogue of security,” the Georgian Foreign Ministry says.
The Foreign Ministry stated that the EaP initiative played a big role in the development of the relations between the EU and the partner states, as well as for the regional stability and cooperation.
Due to the efforts provided by the EU a range of opportunities have been created in the region over the past 10 years in the fields of economy and trade, transport, energy communication and for strengthening of people to people ties,” the ministry reported.
The Eastern Partnership was created on April 7, 2009.
One hundred young European Ambassadors from the EU and its six Eastern partner countries- Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine are gathering this week in Brussels to celebrate the achievements of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) in the past decade.
Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani has stated at a meeting of the Visegrad Four and the foreign ministers of the Eastern Partnership in Bratislava on Monday that Georgia is the leader of the EU Eastern Partnership format and the achievements Georgia has made over the course of past 10 years are recognised by its partners.
The Eastern Partnership (EaP) ministerial was held in Luxemburg yesterday, where Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani once again emphasized that his country’s ultimate goal is EU membership.
The Government of Germany will increase financial support for the programmes of the Eastern Partnership states from the current amount of €14 million to €17 million, announced Dirk Wiese, the Coordinator for Intersocietal Cooperation with Russia, Central Asia and the Eastern Partnership Countries of the Foreign Ministry of Germany.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze will visit Brussels next week to participate in events dedicated to the 10th Anniversary of the Eastern Partnership (EaP). On May 13-14, the European Union and its six Eastern partners - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine - will mark the EaP anniversary with a number of events.
The Eastern Partnership (EaP) ministerial, to mark the 19th anniversary of the format created to reinforce the political association and economic integration of six Eastern European countries into the EU, has been held today in Brussels earlier today.
President of the European Commission Donald Tusk stated on the 10th anniversary of the EU’s Eastern Partnership format that there is more Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine in the EU.
Head of the European Commission Jean Claude Juncker says that Georgia is a “100 per cent European state” and the leader of the EU’s Eastern Partnership format.Juncker made the statement earlier today, during his meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze in Brussels, Belgium.
The rich collections of cultural exhibits at the Georgian National Museum were on display for a high-profile visitor this week as Tibor Navracsics, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, was introduced to the heritage in Tbilisi.
Georgia’s Black Sea town of Batumi will host the inaugural investment forum of the Eastern Partnership on July 11. The event will bring together some 400 participants from the European Union and the six countries of the Eastern Partnership - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
The Batumi 16th International Conference, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative, will open tomorrow with an “unprecedented number” of foreign guests, including the president of the European Council Donald Tusk, Georgian Foreign Ministry reports.
The countries of the Eastern Partnership have created a catalogue of ongoing projects in need of investments, which will enable investors from the EU to examine the projects in detail, Deputy Minister of Economy Genadi Arveladze stated yesterday at a briefing.
Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani has held a meeting with Czech Foreign Minister Tomas Petricek, who is currently on an official visit to Georgia. Minister Zalkaliani thanked the Czech Republic for steady support to Georgian Euro-Atlantic course and said the countries collaborate intensively in politics, culture and economy.
The Georgian capital of Tbilisi hosted the third high-level EU–Georgia Strategic Security Dialogue yesterday, reconfirming “both sides' strong interest in closer cooperation in foreign and security policy, in line with the EU-Georgia Association Agreement”.
The Financial Times has released an article by Suma Chakrabarti, the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) titled Thirty years after the Berlin Wall, the region to watch is eastern Europe and the Caucasus.
Georgian Vice Prime Minister Maia Tskitishvili is taking part in the EBRD Eastern Partnership (EaP) Investment Summit taking place in the headquarters of the EBRD, in London, England on November 22.
Vice Prime Minister Maia Tskitishvili has met with Johannes Hahn, the European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations and discussed a new initiative to choose Georgian focus regions and carry out new projects based on their needs.
The Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries intend to sign an agreement on regional mobile roaming by the end of 2020, reports EUneighbours.eu.
Paul L. Vandoren, a former EU Ambassador to Croatia and former acting EU Ambassador to Russia says that the EU is likely to acknowledge Georgia’s progress made to the EU on the June 18th Eastern Partnership Summit, adding that it is hard to say what terminology will be used to describe Georgia’s prospects for EU membership.
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution in the run up to the June 19 Eastern Partnership Summit, providing recommendations to the European Council, Commission, vice president of the European Commission and High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the Eastern Partnership.
President of the European Council Charles Michel will visit Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine next week.
The Georgian, Ukrainian and Moldovan foreign ministers will meet with the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell Fontelles today in Brussels to discuss further cooperation between the EU and its three associated members within the EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative (EaP) format.
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis says that the European integration of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine is ‘within the interests of the EU’. At a meeting of EU ministers of foreign affairs yesterday, Landsbergis asserted that for the Eastern Partnership to succeed, political and economic ties with Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine need to be strengthened.
Three German parties forming a new coalition government have declared their support for the European integration of the Eastern Partnership countries, including Georgia. The Social Democrats, Greens, and Free Democrats reached a deal yesterday to form a new government in Germany, with Olaf Scholz replacing Angela Merkel as chancellor.
Georgian, Ukrainian and Moldovan PMs held a meeting in Brussels earlier today, prior to meeting with top EU officials in the coming hours, ahead of the December 15 summit of the EU’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) initiative. It is the first visit of the Associated Trio to Brussels, a joint initiative of Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova launched in May 2021 to strengthen cooperation towards common European goals and EU membership.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, Ukrainian PM Denys Shmuhal and Moldovan PM Natalia Gavrilita have pledged to deepen ties with top officials of the European Union while paying a visit to Brussels ahead of the December 15 Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit.
Ilia Darchiashvili, the Georgian Foreign Minister, on Monday said the ministerial meeting of the European Union’s Eastern Partnership initiative later today would stress Tbilisi’s "keen interest" in maintaining “active participation” in the format.