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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. whet...

Russia has said the decision by EU leaders to accept Ukraine and Moldova as membership candidates would have negative consequences.

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 any...

And this is not the result ofjust one day. this is not the result ofjust one government. it's true — we've had ups and downs. we've had corrupt governments that were promoting... well, you still have to do something on corruption. absolutely. we still have a lot to do onjustice, on corruption, on the rule of law, on democracy, on freedom, because it is important, whatever happens, it's important to keep moldova part of the free world. this is the absolute most important thing that we have to do for the future of our country. ukraine and moldova kind of got the green light with conditions on ...

Actual process of admission is set to take ?many years,? PM Alexander De Croo has warned Granting Ukraine EU-candidate status is an import