“Unless Georgia changes its current course of action (..), the Commission will not be able to consider a recommendation to open negotiations with Georgia,” the EC’s annual report on the bloc’s enlargement said.
After Russia‘s repeated invasion of Ukraine, membership in the EU has become a “strategic choice”, stated the EU’s top representative for foreign affairs, Jozep Borel.
“You simply cannot maintain ties with Russia or try to live as if nothing happened and expect your country to become a part of the EU,” Borel emphasized.
He added that the recently held Georgian parliamentary elections, in which observers found numerous violations, further strengthened the course pursued by the Georgian authorities, which distances the country from the EU and its values.
The EC has reconfirmed that Georgia’s admission process has been “de facto” suspended.
The EC Tbilisi has also reminded that it still has not joined the sanctions against Russia, Belarus and Iran. In addition, the number of direct flights between Georgia and Russia has recently increased.
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