EU’s Varhelyi: EU membership questionnaire to be first step
“This is the first step on your European path. We are ready to work with you very fast to deliver the opinion to the European Council as requested,” Oliver Varhelyi, the European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement tweeted after handing over EU membership questionnaire to Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Monday.
I handed over the questionnaire on #EU ?? application to Foreign Minister of #Georgia ?? @iliadarch in Luxembourg today: ‘This is the first step on your European path. We are ready to work with you very fast to deliver the opinion to the European Council as requested.´ pic.twitter.com/qfANjr4H7V
— Oliver Varhelyi (@OliverVarhelyi) April 11, 2022
FM Darchiashvili stressed that “by receiving the questionnaire, we have made another major step forward on the path of our people’s national choice – EU integration!”
By receiving the questionnaire, we have made another major step forward on the path of our people’s national choice – ?? integration! Many thanks, Commissioner @OliverVarhelyi.
?? will spare no efforts to timely fill in the document and proceed to the next stages! pic.twitter.com/XL7Kpy4YEL— Ilia Darchiashvili (@iliadarch) April 11, 2022
Georgia officially applied for EU membership on March 3.
Here it is: a set of 369 questions for #Moldova to answer about its readiness to join the EU.
Thank you @OliverVarhelyi for moving fast on the process. We too are committed to working faster and harder towards EU accession. pic.twitter.com/T1jl7JBGK9
— Nicu Popescu (@nicupopescu) April 11, 2022
The European Council invited the European Commission to submit its opinions on the EU membership applications of Moldova and Georgia on March 11.