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Georgia’s joining EU “very difficult” under current Gov’t – opposition MP

Khatia Dekanoidze, the opposition MP, on Tuesday reacted to the EU Council President Charles Michel’s announcement on the bloc’s alleged expansion by 2030, and claimed Georgia’s joining the EU would be “very difficult” under the current Georgian Dream authorities. 

 

In her comments, the former law enforcement official in Georgia and Ukraine who has recently quit the United National Movement opposition party, said instead of ensuring efforts to carry out  reforms for joining the bloc, the current Government and its “informal  ruler” – in reference to the GD founder and the former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili – had been engaged in “demonizing” the West. 

 

She claimed the current actions and the statements of the ruling party were in the interests of Russia, adding the Government’s change in the 2024 Parliamentary elections would benefit the country’s European choice and its Euro-Atlantic integration. 

 

“We have an important mission to perform in 2024 to appear in the wave of the EU expansion –  we should change the Government via elections and pro-Western forces should come into power to carry out necessary reforms”, Dekanoidze said. 

 

The ruling Georgian Dream party top figures on Tuesday said naming the date for the bloc expansion was positive, but noted the EU officials should be more clear whether the announced enlargement concerned old or new applicants, or all the countries with the bloc’s candidate status. 

 

The EU has been scheduled to decide on Georgia’s candidacy in December, following the European Commission’s assessments over Tbilisi’s implementation of the reform agenda outlined by it in June 2022 for granting the candidate status.

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