The European Union is open to Georgia becoming a member, the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Thursday, but warned Tbilisi needed to implement sweeping reforms to get candidate status.

The EU recognised Georgia's "European perspective" last year but deferred its membership application, while granting candidacy to Ukraine and Moldova, arguing Tbilisi needed to make changes first.

https://www.euronews.com/2023/09/08/georgia-needs-sweeping-reforms-to-get-eu-candidate-status-warns-josep-borrell

#Georgia #EU #Candidacy #Enlargement #EUEnlargement

#CornelWest is another narcissistic, "I'm in it for me" rabble rouser who believes that going against the grain is a political #ideology. His so-called #candidacy is a joke without a punchline. All he's doing is feeding his #ego at the expense of the best interests of the nation. And for what? At the end of the day, he'll just be another quirky also-ran in the footnote of #history.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/cornel-west-calls-the-democratic-party-beyond-redemption-labels-bernie-sanders-and-aoc-window-dressing/

#Trump’s #indictment plus #candidacy could endanger #democracy and the #ruleofLaw
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/17/trump-indictment-candidacy-democracy-institutions/?ref=am-quickie.ghost.io

Cele|bitchy | Meatball Ron #DeSantis announced his #candidacy on #Twitter, it was a #DeSaster https://www.celebitchy.com/819048/meatball_ron_desantis_announced_his_candidacy_on_twitter_it_was_a_desaster/

RT @violavoncramon: I hope to be also celebrating the #Candidacy of 🇬🇪#Georgia in 6 month from now. Fot that, @GovernmentGeo needs to start delivering. The #EU Instructions are crystal clear. @GeorgianDream41, the ball is in your court.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ViolavonCramon/status/1540241028409692160

RT @violavoncramon: 🇺🇦#Ukraine це #Європа!
🇲🇩#Moldova este #Europa!
🇬🇪#Georgia არის #ევროპა!

#EUCO& @EUParl_EN decision to grant #candidacy to 🇺🇦🇲🇩 & perspective to 🇬🇪 reshapes our continent & does historic justice to the will of the 3 peoples. 🎉#Congrats! A long road ahead. Lets make it happen!

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ViolavonCramon/status/1540241023498162177

I hope to be also celebrating the #Candidacy of 🇬🇪#Georgia in 6 month from now. Fot that, @GovernmentGeo needs to start delivering. The #EU Instructions are crystal clear. @GeorgianDream41, the ball is in your court.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ViolavonCramon/status/1540240929835155456

🇺🇦#Ukraine це #Європа!
🇲🇩#Moldova este #Europa!
🇬🇪#Georgia არის #ევროპა!

#EUCO& @EUParl_EN decision to grant #candidacy to 🇺🇦🇲🇩 & perspective to 🇬🇪 reshapes our continent & does historic justice to the will of the 3 peoples. 🎉#Congrats! A long road ahead. Lets make it happen!

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ViolavonCramon/status/1540240928010534914

🎉A historic day for #Europe - the 🇪🇺#Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of immediately granting #CANDIDACY to 🇺🇦#Ukraine & 🇲🇩#Moldova & when the 🇬🇪Government fulfills criteria - to #Georgia too.
Now it is up to the @EUCouncil to replicate the will of the parliament.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ViolavonCramon/status/1539971122061422592

Disabled Kenyan singer goes to court over rejected presidential candidacy | Global development | The Guardian #disabled #kenyan #singer #goes #court #over #rejected #presidential #candidacy #global #development #guardian #16giugno https://parliamodi.news/article/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlZ3VhcmRpYW4uY29tL2dsb2JhbC1kZXZlbG9wbWVudC8yMDIyL2p1bi8xNi9kaXNhYmxlZC1rZW55YW4tc2luZ2VyLWdvZXMtdG8tY291cnQtb3Zlci1yZWplY3RlZC1wcmVzaWRlbnRpYWwtY2FuZGlkYWN5

🇬🇪For the record, in the last weeks, in 🇪🇺Brussels, I meet two opposition parties from #Georgia - #Lelo & Gakharia's #forGeo. Both strongly demanded the EU #candidacy for 🇬🇪 despite the democratic backsliding as "it's a historic chance for the country & is above all party lines".

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ViolavonCramon/status/1531537270997762051