The Chair of the EU Integration Committee, Maka Botchorishvili, on Wednesday, held a meeting with the members of the Committee on European Union Affairs of the German Bundestag, serving the visit to Georgia. German MPs also held a meeting with the EU Integration Committee members.

According to the Parliament’s press office, the central topics of the conversation were Georgia’s EU integration, the nation’s progress in complying with the EU recommendations, ongoing reforms, and the existing challenges. The parties touched upon the security milieu in the region and the challenges that Georgia encounters. A positive assessment was given to the progress of the political dialogue between the two Committees.

“We informed our German colleagues about the progress we achieve in compliance with the EU recommendations and the attitude and the aspiration of Germany to support Georgia in the process of our EU integration is paramount. They also are aspired to hear from various political parties about the degree of the will of the Georgian political spectrum to become an EU member, the seriousness we take in this regard, and whether this 80%-support is reflected in Georgian politics. Naturally, all political forces enjoy the opportunity to express their positions concerning the EU membership”, Botchorishvili stated after the meeting.

Based on the information obtained in Georgia, German MPs are to hold debates in the EU Affairs Committee in the Bundestag and submit their positions to the German Government.

“I would like to see our European family further enlarged in a couple of years and to see the countries aspiring to the EU achieving this outlined goal. I am glad that the majority of the Georgian population demonstrates this very European thinking and aspires to the EU. It is a crucial factor”, – the Delegation member, Christian Petry noted.