The European Commission made a historic decision on June 17 and a historic entry has appeared in its Opinion, whereby the European Commission recommends to the European Council to grant a European Perspective to Georgia to let it eventually become an EU Member State. Such a statement made today the Prime Minister of Georgia.

“I congratulate each Georgian on this historic decision. Second entry in the recommendations of the European Commission to the European Council is the following: Georgia be granted an EU candidacy status as soon as the priorities, i.e. conditions, are achieved.

Now, as the European Council approves the recommendations, we will thereafter start work with Brussels, of course. I wish to clarify for our fellow citizens that the majority of these recommendations were in our agenda anyway. There are other topics as well, which will be cleared with Brussels, of course. We will work with them and get an EU candidacy status. Hereby, I wish to explain to our fellow citizens, as I know that the majority of them have certain questions on why Moldova and Ukraine turned out to be more incentivized. I wish to clarify to our fellow citizens the following: Moldova and Ukraine have an absolutely identical entry in terms of European Perspective, i.e. Opinions of the European Commission on these countries also include a recommendation to the European Council to grant them a status, perspective and status as well. That is, status is given to them in advance in real terms. It is an incentivising advance for Ukraine, which is in the heaviest war and for Moldova, which is also in a very hard condition.

At the same time, they are also requested - urged - to carry out a number of reforms. In our case it is the other way round: we should first meet all the conditions that are laid out in the Opinion of the European Commission, carry out these reforms, implement the priorities and Georgia will be granted the status afterwards, of course”, - said Irakli Garibashvili.