While delivering the 2022 report on the Government’s work, Gharibashvili said: “All the good things, all the progress achieved over the past 10 years on the country’s path of European integration had been the merit of the ruling Georgian Dream party”.

“I would like to touch on the main event of the year - the decision of the European Union on granting Georgia a European perspective that was difficult to imagine before. The ongoing war in Ukraine accelerated the processes - we understand this well. We expected to receive the EU membership candidate status, although we understand very well that it was only a political decision, [and] not a decision based on merit, that Georgia did not receive the status at this stage.

However, we believe that our country will receive this status very soon. The reason for saying this is the successful reforms that we have carried out. The 12 recommendations outlined by the EU for granting the status to Georgia have been thoroughly implemented with the involvement of the Parliament and the ruling team. Now we are waiting for the decision of our European counterparts”, - Gharibashvili said.

To be reminded, on June 24, the European Council granted the membership candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova, and said it would be ready to grant the same status to Georgia once the outstanding priorities outlined by the European Commission would be addressed by the Georgian Government.