Georgian Parliament to begin work on fulfilling EU conditions for membership candidate status
The ruling Georgian Dream party on Friday presented its strategy for fulfilling the EU conditions, with Chairman Irakli Kobakhidze vowing the ruling team would ensure their fulfilment in “appropriate time and manner”. Photo: Parliament of Georgia.
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The Georgian Parliament is set to start the early work for fulfilling the 12-point outline established by the European Union for granting the country the membership candidate status, with relevant sessions of the lawmaking body scheduled on Thursday.
The first session in the work will be held by the Committee on Procedural Issues and Rules of the Parliament, the press office of Parliament said.
A Parliamentary working group will work on a bill on deoligarchisation - related to one of the points in the EU outline - while a monitoring group will be drawn up to promote reducing the polarisation of the political environment of the country.
The ruling Georgian Dream party on Friday presented its strategy for fulfilling the EU conditions, with Chairman Irakli Kobakhidze vowing the ruling team would ensure their fulfilment in “appropriate time and manner”.
The strategy involves a working group - featuring representatives of all Parliamentary parties and the civil sector - that will provide a “comprehensive assessment” of the implementation of the legislative body’s regulations in the field of Parliamentary supervision and prepare a legislative initiative to correct identified shortcomings.
Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, on Wednesday said the EU was ready to grant the membership candidate status to Georgia once the priorities outlined by the bloc are addressed.
President of the European Council Charles Michel on Wednesday said that the European Union was ready to grant the membership candidate status to Georgia once the priorities outlined by the bloc are addressed.
A “certain part” of the domestic opposition is using the 12-point conditions outlined by the European Council for granting Georgia the European Union membership candidate status later this year for the objective of “deepening polarisation” in the domestic political environment, Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili said on Wednesday.
Viola von Cramon, a Member of the European Parliament, on Tuesday called the ruling Georgian Dream party’s proposal for fulfilling the 12-point conditions outlined by the European Union for granting the country the membership candidate status later this year a “great signal”.
The ruling Georgian Dream party on Friday presented its strategy for fulfilling the 12-point conditions outlined by the European Council for granting the country the European Union membership candidate status later this year.
Irakli Kadagishvili, the Chairman of the Rules and Procedural Issues Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, on Thursday called on the domestic opposition, non-governmental organisations and experts to get involved in the work process on fulfilling the 12-point conditions established by the European Union for granting Georgia the membership candidate status.
Khatuna Samnidze, an opposition MP and the Chair of the Republican Party, on Thursday said the implementation of the 12-point conditions established by the European Union for granting Georgia the membership candidate status should “go beyond party interests”.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Thursday pledged that “no later than a month” after receiving the European Union membership candidate status for Georgia in December of this year, the Parliament would approve a lower two percent threshold for parliamentary elections.
Representatives of Georgian Parliamentary opposition groups on Thursday met Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili to discuss the Government’s plan for implementing the 12-point conditions established by the European Union for granting Georgia the membership candidate status.
The European Council’s decision on granting the European perspective to Georgia is a “recognition of the progress” achieved by the country over the years, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said on Friday at a joint briefing with Karl Nehammer, the Federal Chancellor of Austria.
The Parliamentary working group created to review judicial reforms for fulfilling conditions outlined by the European Union for granting Georgia the membership candidate status will hold its first meeting on Monday, the Parliament’s press office said.