Speaker: EU member states internal debate poses no obstacle to Georgia; Georgians expect fair European Council decision

“We have been hearing for a long time that the decision would be merit-based. The merit is obvious, and there is no backdrop but to expect the only decision,” said Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili.

According to the Speaker, Georgia deserves EU candidate status.

“The internal debate between different EU countries does not pose any obstacle to making a merit-based rather than out-of-spite decision regarding Georgia, i.e. when someone does not support something, the others get back at it not supporting Georgia’s EU candidate status. Georgian population expects the decision to be fair and no reoccurrence of unfairness that happened last year,” he said.