Gov’t with Georgian people “achieved irreversible progress” on EU integration - Parliament Vice Speaker
In an interview with the Imedi TV channel, Talakvadze called the European Commission’s recommendation on November 8 - for the European Council to grant Georgia the European Union membership candidate status - “a historic moment”. Photo via Archil Talakvadze/Facebook
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Archil Talakvadze, the Georgian Parliament Vice Speaker, on Saturday said the country’s Government, with the support of Georgian society, was able to attain “irreversible progress” on the road to European integration.
In an interview with the Imedi TV channel, Talakvadze called the European Commission’s recommendation on November 8 - for the European Council to grant Georgia the European Union membership candidate status - “a historic moment”.
Today it can be said that [...] this [Georgia’s] progress has been properly seen and fairly evaluated. [...] We did everything so that Georgia could achieve this result”, he noted, adding the country was given “the green light” to receive the status.
Georgia is now more European, freer and economically stronger than it was ten years ago, Talakvadze emphasised and noted the reforms carried out by the ruling Georgian Dream party “have brought the opportunity” for the country to receive the EU candidate status, stressing Georgia would “achieve more” if it had “a responsible opposition”.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday highlighted France's support for the country’s European Union integration path.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday hailed Georgian people, “whose commitment to democracy and Europe no longer needs to be proven”.
The European Union Ambassador to Georgia, Paweł Herczyński on Wednesday said “we are one family [...] the future of Georgia is in the EU”, noting the bloc was “fully committed” to help the country build “a better future” after the European Commission recommended the European Council to grant Georgia its membership candidate status next month.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Wednesday said he believed Georgia would receive the European Union membership candidate status in December following the positive recommendation of the European Commission, and hailed his Government's efforts to ensure “key changes” for the objective despite “coordinated attempts” by “domestic and foreign enemies”.
Georgia’s European integration path is clear, which causes “radical opposition’s disappointment as their destabilisation plan has failed”, Gia Volski, an MP from the ruling Georgian Dream party and the Vice Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, said on Sunday.
Kakha Kaladze, the Secretary General of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Monday said the five percent election threshold would remain “unchanged” for next year’s parliamentary elections, amid demands by domestic opposition groups to decrease it to two percent.
Archil Talakvadze, the Vice Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, on Tuesday said the European Commission had given Georgia “green light” on its application to be granted the European Union candidate status.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Tuesday said the Georgian Government had acted in accordance with “own priorities” in its efforts for European integration, in reaction to the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s critical comments on the European Union’s planned enlargement.