After the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Georgia pledged its support to the government in Kyiv. Now Tbilisi is orienting itself even more clearly towards Europe.
Georgia intends to apply for EU membership as early as this Thursday.
“We call on the EU bodies to subject our application to an emergency review and to grant Georgia the status of an EU candidate country,” said the head of the ruling party, the Georgian Dream, Irakli Kobachidze, according to the online portal “civil.ge”. This is a political decision by the party “taking into account the general political context and the new reality”. The application will be submitted on behalf of the government in Brussels.
With that, Kobachidze is making a U-turn. On Tuesday he insisted that Georgia would not submit such an application until 2024 because “a hasty initiative could be counterproductive”. In the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, Kobachidze had also assured the government in Kyiv of Georgia’s support. However, the ex-Soviet republic does not want to participate in the sanctions imposed by the EU, the USA and many other countries. The relationship between Tiflis (Tbilisi) and Moscow has been tense since the 2008 war in the Caucasus at the latest.
Source: Stern
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