EU Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi: ‘Georgia has quite long list of reforms that needs to be implemented'
Varhelyi noted that the best way to continue working with Georgia is to implement the DCFTA, which is ‘a good and fastest way of integration’. Photo: ec.europa.eu.
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Georgia has quite a long list of reforms that need to be implemented in the country and the EU will deploy the necessary help and funds to continue to work in this direction, EU Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement, Oliver Varhelyi stated at a news conference after an Eastern Partnership Foreign Affairs Ministers’ meeting today.
If Georgia wants to implement the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) quicker, we are ready to do so. As I have already said, every opportunity has been provided to all the countries of the Eastern Partnership to be more involved, and we are ready to be more involved as well”, Oliver Varhelyi said.
Varhelyi noted that the best way to continue working with Georgia is to implement the DCFTA, which is ‘a good and the fastest way of integration’.
Georgia signed the Association Agreement with the EU in 2014, which includes the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area agreement with the European Union.
Georgia's Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili spoke positively of Georgia's progress, growing economy and opportunities for foreign investors at the Georgia-Estonian Business Forum today.
The European Commission is supporting reform implementation and economic development in Georgia through a new assistance package totalling €100 million.
Georgia has received €6 million from the European Union (EU) that will support the country implement the Association Agreement (AA), particularly the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA).
Georgia’s implementation of the Association Agreement (AA) and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) was the main topic discussed at today’s meeting between the country’s President Giorgi Margvelashvili and European Union (EU) Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn.
European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi has underlined ‘the need for cross-party dialogue’ during a phone talk with Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia earlier today.
Oliver Varhelyi, the European Union Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, on Tuesday said the “most important “advice for Georgia was to focus on the conditions of the European Commission for granting the country the EU membership candidate status, and expressed his hope “all stakeholders” in the country would work on the objective.