Georgia has been asked to implement a package of 12 reforms to strengthen its democracy and the independence of its courts and media
Georgian opposition supporters rally in Tblisi in March, calling for the government to follow a 'pro-Western' path.
Yet while a poll in April found that 89 per cent of Georgians support joining the EU, the highest number for years, the ambivalent attitude of the country’s Georgian Dream government towards Russia has raised suspicions that its aspiration to membership is halfhearted. Critics point to its refusal to implement sanctions over Ukraine or to provide it with arms.
The ambivalence is surprising and out of kilter with the popular mood. Russia, which attacked Georgia in 2008, occupies the breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Polls show that nine in 10 Georgians back Ukraine and view Russia as a major threat. Moldova, on the other hand, part of which Russia also occupies and subverts, stood up for Ukraine and has been rewarded with EU accession negotiations.
Accession remains a merit-based process, the Commission insists, fully dependent on the objective progress achieved by each country. Georgia’s report says “could do better”.
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