great on that score. as you said, the european union gave georgia 12 conditions. one of them, for instance, is over the appointment of supreme courtjudges to the supreme court. it s felt that there s too much political interference. around 20 were appointed in one go in a process that the european union said lacked credibility and integrity. do you think the government of georgia, the ruling georgian dream party, which has a very, you know, clear majority in the parliament, is serious about wanting tojoin the european union? i think they re working on it. i think that we are not perfect. i think many countries today are not perfect in these democratic achievements. and i certainly am one that is pushing on all these directions so that we deliver what we have to deliver. but again, i would say that today, tomorrow, the decision of the eu has to be a more strategic one than one based formally on the criteria. not to say that we push aside
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steak and support you so they would be that easy for that they had to know it s all started nicely and well it all started beautiful people brought this government fifty four percent we had my dad and we all the criticism we had on them and with all this crap said we had of them we still thought they ll make this time it will be different why because it was after my dad because that s european choice because if you know how entrenched corruption. was you start somewhere only get one thousand that s all you were prepared you know given. the u.k. ukrainian civil rights advocate said last year he knew he quit early just blaming everything and everyone else for not achieving anything during that the well that s not exactly right with the chief benefit we built a road that hadn t been built for forty years we had it built we brought a lot of new people for the customs of the first time in history of the city of odessa customs police and prosecutors were not corrupt that s quite an achieveme
indeed a new but it didn t exactly work that needs another level of support but we showed the people different and i think that s some kind of legacy even if i m not i m totally unhappy with it and i m not satisfied with my performance but we could achieve as much as we could let me put it this way the trouble was the job wasn t high profile wasn t big enough didn t have enough power and you re still hungry for power running look. for there s a governor was very high profile in ukraine because it was the front line of fighting for and for basically for against corruption and for unity of ukraine told the western journalists in december last december that you had your eyes on a role in the future government ideally this problem in the social you re hungry of power let me let me put this in a way to put it very plain when persian gulf or twice to become prime minister i declined i declined because i thought it would be window dressing i declined because he wanted me to use my popularity
because saakashvili welcome to come thank you for inviting me it s been a bizarre few weeks for you one moment you re probably saying to unite to the opposition against the president then you re threatening to throw yourself off the roof of a block of flats well that s not that s not exactly true i didn t. i told him no i told him if they come and try to put handcuffs on me we would all fall and that was actually true but they never tried it at that place but i went through the roof because my cell phone was jammed and i needed to call people saw i had to go to the roof it had very pragmatic. first message called for at the edge of the roof so that s how telecommunications worked but this is this is street. a lot of people are wondering whether you ve lost the plot and that well look it s not about me i think people have you made it about you then which made it about you yeah. it s a little personal lives here legally. the government is doing all kind of bizarre