Irakli Kirtskhalia on the EU enlargement report: First they decide whether they are expanding or not expanding, leave the door open, close it a little

First they decide whether they are expanding or not expanding, leave the door open, close it a little – they are already dictating a slave spirit to us, that you must stand on one foot with a slave spirit, and along with all of this they tell us that you will not even have the right to vote, – this was stated by the leader of the parliamentary majority, Irakli Kirtskhalia, when speaking about expectations related to the EU enlargement report.

According to him, because of such statements and the lack of clarity regarding enlargement, their rating is decreasing not only in Georgia but also in the EU member states themselves.

“The most important thing is that no matter what they decide and even if they lay out a carpet for you, they tell countries with candidate status that if you join the Union you will not have the right to vote. They are already dictating a slave spirit to us, that you must stand on one foot with a slave spirit, and along with all of this they tell us that you will not even have the right to vote. I ask the question: in which Union is a self-respecting country supposed to develop, where it will have no rights at all? We Georgians have truly never chosen slavery and will never choose it. We remain faithful to that spirit and to that Europe in the time of which Article 78 appeared in our Constitution, and where is Europe today and how, unfortunately, does society evaluate it?! Day by day and from month to month, not through our fault but through their policy and such statements: that first they expand, then they do not expand, we will expand only if you enter and you will not have the right to speak, you will not have the right to raise your voice, when we tell you you must sleep, when we tell you you must wake up – with this policy, of course, their rating will decrease in Georgia as well, and how the rating of this very governance is decreasing in their own countries and what events are taking place today, we, you and the whole world can see very well,” Kirtskhalia stated.

For reference: the European Commission will publish its annual enlargement report on 4 November.

“It is expected that the report will repeat last year’s assessment according to which Georgia is an EU candidate country ‘in name only,’ but that the candidate status will not be withdrawn from it,” – this is noted in an article published by the editor of Radio Free Europe’s Europe bureau, Ryszard Józwiak.