“I cannot accept that we lose Georgia,” EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos told Radio Liberty in an exclusive interview. She said Brussels was considering freezing the candidate status and revising the trade agreement (DCFTA) as countermeasures to the democratic setback, but is “cautious.”
EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos visited the Radio Liberty headquarter in Prague on Monday, April 28. She gave an exclusive interview to Rikard Jozwiak, the Europe editor for RFE/RL.
“ We could take away, let’s say, visa liberalization, but we will harm the most the population. Then, we have the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area Agreement (DCFTA). We may review this agreement. Then, Georgia still has candidate status. So, we could freeze it, create a standstill like with Turkey. These are the possibilities. I don’t like it when governments don’t consider people. The [Georgian] people have a great desire to follow the European path. We will work on this again. I cannot accept that we can lose Georgia, even if the government adopts one law after another that clearly contradicts European values. We tried to do sanctions, but there was no possibility, there is no unanimity among the member states. Yes, we tried that, but there are individual member states that have introduced individual sanctions,” said Marta Kos.
