for the future of our country. ukraine and moldova kind of got the green light with conditions on their candidate status. you perhaps were given an amber light with a lot of conditions as well. a lot to talk about there about your application to join the european union and the questions we ve had from the floor about how putin will react to it and so on, so just given an answer to all that jumble of questions there. we have been building democracy at gunpoint for three decades now and this is our usual experience, so in that in that case, we are not afraid of any intimidation or any pressure. we have been living with this for three decades. as for the candidate status thing, you know, we see it as a. it s a big thing, actually. for the first time in the last 30 years that we have been independent, europe has recognised that georgia can become member of the european union. you were given this slightly odd
a lot to talk about there about your application to join the european union and the questions we ve had from the floor about how putin will react to it and so on, so just given an answer to all that jumble of questions there. we have been building democracy at gunpoint for three decades now and this is our usual experience, so in that in that case, we are not afraid of any intimidation or any pressure. we have been living with this for three decades. as for the candidate status thing, you know, we see it as a. it s a big thing, actually. for the first time in the last 30 years that we have been independent, europe has recognised that georgia can become member of the european union. you were given this slightly odd phrase, european perspective . this is what european perspective that six months ago, if anybody asked us whether we would get it and we would be happy about it, we would be ecstatic about it because this is a formal recognition
to do for the future of our country. ukraine and moldova kind of got the green light with conditions on their candidate status. you perhaps were given an amber light with a lot of conditions as well. a lot to talk about there about your application to join the european union and the questions we ve had from the floor about how putin will react to it and so on, so just given an answer to all thatjumble of questions there. we have been building democracy at gunpoint for three decades now and this is our usual experience, so in that in that case, we are not afraid of any intimidation or any pressure. we have been living with this for three decades. as for the candidate status thing, you know, we see it as a. it s a big thing, actually. for the first time in the last 30 years that we have been
as for the candidate status thing, you know, we see it as a. it s a big thing, actually. for the first time in the last 30 years that we have been independent, europe has recognised that georgia can become member of the european union. you were given this slightly odd phrase, european perspective . this is what european perspective that six months ago, if anybody asked us whether we would get it and we would be happy about it, we would be ecstatic about it because this is a formal recognition by the european union. georgia is part of europe and one day it will become a memberof europe. whether it s a candidate status with a long list of conditionality, that is a bump on the road. this is how we see it. i mean, it has happened to other countries as well, but i m sure that we will be there sooner than later. and i know you asked the question, what do you think about what the panel have said? i agree that mr putin - would become more like angry
there. we have been building democracy at gunpoint for three decades now and this is our usual experience, so in that in that case, we are not afraid of any intimidation or any pressure. we have been living with this for three decades. as for the candidate status thing, you know, we see it as a. it s a big thing, actually. for the first time in the last 30 years that we have been independent, europe has recognised that georgia can become member of the european union. you were given this slightly odd phrase, european perspective . this is what european perspective that six months ago, if anybody asked us whether we would get it and we would be happy about it, we would be ecstatic about it because this is a formal recognition by the european union. georgia is part of europe and one day it will become a memberof europe. whether it s a candidate status with a long list of conditionality, that is a bump on the road. this is how we see it.