On June 17, the European Parliament will discuss the annual report on Georgia as a candidate country. Rapporteur on Georgia Rasa Juknevičienė expects the European Parliament to adopt the report with a large majority, as the main political groups in Europe are united in their assessment of Georgian Dream. In an interview with Netgazeti, Juknevičienė …
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David McAllister on Georgia and Enlargement: The EU Cannot Treat a Candidate Country Purely as a Transactional Partner
“There is no more time for grey zones,” says David McAllister, Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs. He answered Netgazeti’s questions about the enlargement process and relations between Georgia and the European Union. In June, the European Parliament will debate a critical report on Georgia, which AFET has adopted. Representatives of the …
Georgian Dream’s Foreign Ministry Questions Objectivity of European Commission Enlargement Report
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgian Dream responds to the European Commission’s 2025 Enlargement Report, which ranks Georgia as the candidate country with the most negative assessment among the ten candidate countries. In a statement issued by the ministry, it says the European Commission’s critical evaluation is unfounded and “used for yet another round …
Georgia Called ‘Candidate Country in Name Only’ in EU Annual Enlargement Package
The European Commission’s 2025 Enlargement Report delivers its harshest assessment yet of Georgia’s democratic decline, warning that the country’s EU accession process has “de facto reached a halt” following a year marked by repression, human rights violations, and hostile anti-EU rhetoric from the ruling Georgian Dream government. In the 2025 Georgia Report, published on November …
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