European Commission head Juncker says Georgia is a ‘100% European state’
Georgian Prime Minister and the head of the European Commission met in Brussels today. Photo: Prime Minister’s press office.
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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, during the conference dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Eastern Partnership.
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Bakhtadze and Juncker spoke about the EU-Georgia roadmap and the importance of the European School opened in Georgia in 2018.
EU-Georgia relations are at an all-time high,” Bakhtadze said.
He stated that the unique format of the EU-Georgia dialogue created last year, when the Georgian PM and Juncker met in Brussels to discuss the EU-Georgia relations and prospects, confirmed that.
Bakhtadze has already met with President of the European Commission Donald Tusk.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has stayed Georgia needs more ambitious plans, like that of the Eastern Partnership 10 years ago. He also said the country is “ready to make large steps forward.”
“I am convinced that we will get where you are and we will be again in the same family”, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili said at a joint press conference with her Estonian counterpart Kersti Kaljulaid in Tallinn today.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has sent kind wishes to German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, who was elected the first female president of the European Commission yesterday. Leyen is also the first German in the position for more than 50 years.
The European Commission has put forward a proposal for the long-term policy objectives of the Eastern Partnership beyond 2020 to increase trade, strengthen connectivity and deepen the economic integration with Eastern Partnership countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.