Poland and Georgian loudness of despair over EU candidacy
More than 100,000 people left in downtown Tbilisi on Monday to demand EU candidate status for their country. The matter is to be resolved during the EU summit, which will start on Thursday. The European Commission supported granting such status to Ukraine and Moldova, but Georgia has prepared a list of locations. It goes, among others for the independence of the judiciary, de-oligarch, freedom of the media, defense of rights, law and gender equality. It could all be years.
– The candidate status does not guarantee that Georgia will become a member of the EU tomorrow. She should receive candidate status. If you do not get it, you will be in trouble, says Paweł Kowal, a KO MP, to Rzeczpospolita, and you will be the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. – They will put Georgia at a wide angle to Putin and our Western partners should have the intention. I am surprised that both this government and the president are doing so little about it.
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Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili from the point of view of entry to the Thursday entry entrance to the entry to any income. She also appealed to President Andrzej Duda for help. – At this point, Ukraine and Moldova, the prospect of strengthening their strength in Europe, are of key importance. But Poland is in favor of the policy of open doors and the status of EU candidates, also for Georgia, says Jakub Kumoch, head of the International Policy Bureau at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, with “Rzeczpospolita”. – We have been and we are committed to Georgia. We expect the decision to leave the door open for all the countries left to establish Central and Eastern Europe that want to start building the EU and are also ready to reform. By the way, we also count on a tough, pro-European and unequivocal attitude towards Georgia towards the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, including the sanctions imposed on Russia, he argues.
Georgia did not join the sanctions imposed on Russia by the democratic world. The countries have not had diplomatic relations since the 2008 war. But in Tbilisi, they explain that they felt the rupture from the very beginning for the Georgian economy. The opposition and President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been imprisoned since September, accuse the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream billionaire Bidzini Ivanishvili of ties with Russia. They claim that it didn’t really depart from politics in 2021 and still rules from the back seat.
Our results show that Poland is fighting for the status of a candidate for Georgia in the forum. Moreover, Warsaw directly convinced the government in Tbilisi to be unequivocally pro-Ukrainian. We do away with the arguments of thieves with other EU countries that are critical of Georgia’s status. – Unfortunately, our opinion in Tbilisi does not admit to the taken into account – “Rzeczpospolita” well-informed source.
Meanwhile, the deputy head of the Polish Szosa, Marcin Przydacz, argues that the road to EU candidate status is open for Georgia. – We expect our partners, we also have a European, progressive attitude. While no one had any doubts about the stance of Ukraine or Moldova, Georgia’s pro-European stance could be used to continue using services. To facilitate, among others Polish voices of the prospect of a European Georgia among Western partners, Przydacz tells Rzeczpospolita.