Germany’s new government to support Georgia’s EU-integration
Germany's new coalition government agrees to cooperate with the EU and its member states to ‘further develop’ the Eastern Partnership. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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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.
The new coalition agrees to cooperate with the EU and its member states to ‘further develop’ the Eastern Partnership.
States such as Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia that are striving to join the EU should be able to converge through consistent reforms based on the rule of law and market economy, they wrote.
The Eastern Partnership, launched in 2009, is a joint initiative of EU member states and their Eastern European partners – Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine.
Ten years after the creation of the Eastern Partnership initiative, the foreign ministry of Georgia declared that the country had taken all the opportunities which it offered.
In June 2021, Belarus suspended its membership in response to strict economic sanctions imposed by the EU.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, along with his Ukrainian and Moldovan counterparts, Denys Shmyhal and Natalia Gavrilita, has discussed ways how strengthen ties with the European Union (EU), and the steps which will facilitate the European integration of the countries.
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.
Georgian, Ukrainian and Moldovan presidents Salome’s Zurabishvili, Volodymyr Zelensky and Maia Sandu have signed a joint declaration on European integration at the 17th International Conference - Georgia’s European Way, which took place in Batumi, today. The common message of the Assosiated Trio is to strengthen the Eastern Partnership and joint efforts for European integration.
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.
State Secretary of the German Federal Foreign Office Miguel Berger has said that the German Ambassador to Georgia Hubert Knirsch has the ‘full support’ of the country’s foreign office amid the German media outlet Bild’s claims that Knirsch is ‘conspicuously friendly’ with the Georgian government.
Georgia’s European and Euro-Atlantic aspirations were discussed on Monday in a meeting between Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili and Bärbel Bas, the President of the German Bundestag, who is on an official visit to the country.
The existing relations between Georgia and Germany and future prospects of cooperation, as well as Georgia’s European Union integration, were discussed on Tuesday in a meeting by Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Bärbel Bas, the President of the German Bundestag, who is on an official visit to the country.