“Georgia needs strong changes even to be considered still a candidate to the European Union,” stated Josep Borrell, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in an interview with the Ukrainian publication European Pravda.

“We have been telling the Georgian rulers, the Georgian government, that they are diverging from the European track. And if they want to be a member of the European Union, they have to change the law they have approved, to fix the problems evident at elections, to go back to the track. They need strong changes even to be considered still a candidate to the European Union,” Borrell explained.

He contrasted this with Ukraine, noting, “That is not the case with Ukraine at all. I don’t see any similarity between Georgia and Ukraine. Not at all. The President and the government of Ukraine is fully engaged with European Union membership, as well as Ukrainian society. There is no doubt that your country wants to be a member of the European Union. And Ukraine’s membership in the EU is the strongest security commitment or security guarantee that we can offer to Ukraine. That’s not the case with Georgia, certainly,” he added.