“Moldova and Ukraine have a similar record of [European] perspective, meaning that they will be granted perspective and [candidate] status. In fact, the status was upfront, which is an incentive for Ukraine, facing the hardest war, as well as Moldova. Those countries are required to carry out several reforms. In our case, it is the opposite. We must first fulfil all the conditions, implement reforms and priorities, and then get the status.
 

We understand well that Ukraine is in the worst situation, it has lost 20 per cent of its territories, and the war continues. Moldova is also in a tough situation, one of the first affected by this war as it is the bordering state, facing a flow of refugees [fleeing Ukraine]. Both economic and security risks have increased for Moldova,” - Irakli Gharibashvili stated. 
Gharibashvili stressed all the “tangible achievements” related to Georgia’s integration into the European Union are “the merit of the Georgian Dream and Bidzina Ivanishvili [GD founder],” the Association Agreement, Free Trade Agreement, visa-free regime and now the European perspective and candidate status, among them.

To be reminded, the European Commission on Friday recommended the European Council to grant Georgia “European prospective” before assessing how the country meets a number of conditions for receiving the European Union membership candidate status.