This day is crowning and summarising the performance of the ruling team in the past 11 years, said today the Prime Minister of Georgia, while talking about the European Commission’s positive recommendation regarding the granting of status to Georgia.

“What is most important, I wish to say, is that we - and everyone remembers it well - were rather heartbroken when Georgia failed to get the candidacy status back then. It was somewhat hampering us and it may be said that the fact was heart-breaking. Nevertheless, we may proudly say today that we got to this day in a merit-based manner. I believe that our country will get the status of an EU Candidate Country in December and today"s decision will be ultimately materialised. It may be said that our country will enter a different reality as a result. It is truly a very strong step made forward on the path of European integration.

I wish to somewhat summarise the results achieved by our team. This day, may well be said, is crowning and summarising the performance of the ruling team in the past 11 years, which brought peace, stability, huge transformation and change; it may also be said that it brought 10 years of Europeanisation. That is how we can label these 10 years of peace. If anyone, any authorities or ruling team, did anything tangible on the path of European integration, it was the Georgian Dream. And these tangible results have been the EU-Georgia Association Agreement, DCFTA, Visa-Free Travel Arrangement, European Perspective that we received last year and now the candidacy status, which will be - I believe - ultimately materialised in December. It is a short summary of our performance, our governance. Country - let me once again note - achieved unprecedented peace and stability over the past 11 years, irrespective of the unbelievable challenges and complicated security environment in our region”, - said Irakli Garibashvili.