As reported by «Market Leader» (US)
Georgia’s Accession to EU: Telling Tbilisi’s Propaganda and Current Realities Apart
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council commenced official negotiations on preparation for the issue of Georgia gaining EU associate membership. This effort is made within the Eastern Partnership initiative – a special project intended to bring the European Union and six post-soviet states closer (such as Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia).What is the EU Eastern Membership program essentially about? The program is intended to help the EU establish special relations with its neighbors, in this particular case – in the east. This policy is not an expression of a certain strategic vector and in no way means any special preferences that Europeans may have to these 6 states, including Georgia, as explained by experts of the Masterforex-V Trading Academy. On the contrary, Eastern Partnership is put in practice together with other, similar projects: the Northern Dimension and the Union for the Mediterranean. The former is to strengthen dialog with Northern countries that are not part of the EU (Iceland, Norway, Russia). The latter is to find common ground with nations of the Mediterranean basin.