Ruling party sec gen: gov’t will “do everything” to implement EU membership status conditions
Kakha Kaladze, the mayor of Tbilisi and the secretary general of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Tuesday said the Georgian government would “do everything” to ensure implementation of European Union conditions for granting the country the membership candidate status. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall
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Kakha Kaladze, the mayor of Tbilisi and the secretary general of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Tuesday said the Georgian government would “do everything” to ensure implementation of European Union conditions for granting the country the membership candidate status.
The comments follow the statement by Mamuka Mdinaradze, the Georgian Dream executive secretary, who on Monday said the ruling team had decided to forward the domestic bill on deoligarchisation - related to one of the EU recommendations - to the European Commission for comments.
I welcome this decision. As for the bill [itself], we have repeatedly said that the government would do everything to implement the 12-point [EU priorities]. One of its parts is the law on deoligarchisation, and this too will be adopted”, Kaladze said.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Tuesday said the ruling team had taken into account the recommendations of Oliver Varhelyi, the European Union commissioner for neighbourhood and enlargement, and the EU ambassador to Georgia, on forwarding the domestic bill on deoligarchisation for comments to the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission.
The European Union representation in Georgia on Monday welcomed the decision of the ruling Georgian Dream party to send the domestic deoligarchisation bill to the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe for recommendations before its final approval.
Mamuka Mdinaradze, the executive secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Monday said the ruling team had decided to forward the domestic bill on deoligarchisation for comments to the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission.
Anri Okhanashvili, the chair of the Georgian parliament's legal affairs committee, on Thursday said the ruling team was holding consultations with European bodies to make sure there were “no ambiguities” around the domestic deoligarchisation bill.
Anri Okhanashvili, the chair of the Georgian parliament's legal affairs committee, on Tuesday said the Georgian parliament expected an assessment from the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission on the deoligarchisation bill that “is consistent with the principles of the rule of law and the European legal framework”.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Saturday said Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili had received the recommendations from the Council of Europe's Venice Commission on the deoligarchisation bill and judicial reform, which did not include any “substantial changes” to the draft law.