EU spox for external affairs: Georgia will get everything it has been promised
Stano explained technical procedures of the enlargement package of the bloc, as related to membership candidate status of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. Photo: Reuters
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Peter Stano, the spokesperson for the external affairs of the European Union, on Friday said Georgia would “get everything it had been promised” from the EU on the membership candidate status.
Stano explained technical procedures of the enlargement package of the bloc, as related to membership candidate status of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia.
The enlargement package is typically published in autumn of each year and the reporting period starts in spring. So it’s obvious that for logical reasons the inclusion of these countries into this year’s enlargement package is not possible for procedural reasons”, he said.
The EU has officially noted that the European Commission will present its analytical report on Georgia in December.
[The report] deals exactly with the priorities defined for Georgia [for granting it the membership candidate status]. Georgia will get what it was promised. We, of course, expect the same from Georgia, that it will deliver on all the things it committed to and that are necessary in order to proceed in this very important process”, the EU official said.
Stano concluded his comments by noting the analytical report would be followed by “the proper report” within the enlargement package in the autumn of 2023.
Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili on Thursday said a part of the domestic opposition was “sabotaging” the process of Georgia fulfilling the 12-point conditions established by the European Union for granting it the membership candidate status.
European Union Ambassador to Georgia Carl Hartzell on Thursday said it was "very important for everyone in Georgia to realise” that the EU’s decision to “open the door” to Georgia with the European Council’s move to grant the country the European perspective was a “truly historic” moment.
The European Commision will present a report on the priorities in the enlargement package in 2023 to give the Georgian political system “sufficient time” to “thoroughly work” on the priorities for the European Union membership candidate status, Michael Rupp, a representative of the European Commission, said on Wednesday.
Nacho Sánchez Amor, a Member of the European Parliament, on Wednesday said he supported granting Georgia the European Union membership candidate status immediately, claiming putting Georgia in a “different situation” from Moldova and Ukraine had been a “wrong decision” that had increased polarisation in the country’s domestic political environment.
United States Ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan on Friday called the 12-point conditions of the European Council “the ticket for Georgia getting its candidate status” and said their fulfilment was the “priority” for the Georgian people.
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili on Friday signed a decree convening a special session of the Parliament to address the 12-point recommendations outlined by the European Union for granting the country the membership candidate status.
Givi Mikanadze, an MP for the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Monday said the Parliamentary majority would not participate in the special session of the Parliament convened by the Georgian President on Monday.
Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Georgian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee Chair, on Tuesday highlighted the importance of meeting the Vice President of the German Bundestag Katrin Göring-Eckardt by highlighting the role of Germany as "one of the most important" partners for Georgia in the European Union and NATO.
The European Union Ambassador to Georgia Carl Hartzell on Wednesday said the significance of the formal recognition of Georgia as a potential future member of the EU could “not be underestimated”.
The fact that “serious work” on the implementation of the 12-point conditions outlined by the European Union to Georgia for membership is underway and both the ruling party and the opposition have presented their plans has “given us great hope”, David McAllister, the Head of a European Parliament delegation said in a joint press conference with Georgia’s President Salome Zourabichvili in Tbilisi on Wednesday.
Georgia’s European Union integration and implementation of the 12-point conditions outlined by the EU to the country for membership were discussed on Wednesday in a meeting between Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili and David McAllister, the Head of a European Parliament delegation.
Implementation of the 12-point conditions outlined by the European Union to Georgia for membership was discussed on Wednesday by the representatives of Georgian Parliamentary opposition groups and members of the European Parliament delegation, led by David McAllister.