80% of Georgians feel relations with EU are good, poll says
Similar, EU-funded surveys were also carried out in the five other Eastern Partnership countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Eighty per cent of Georgians feel relations with the EU are good, while 71 per cent of people in Georgia trust the EU, a recent survey funded by the EU reads.
The poll say that 50 per cent of Georgians have a positive image of the EU.
Only four per cent of Georgians have a negative view of the EU,” the EU in Georgia press office says.
74 per cent of Georgians (up 16 per cent since 2017) are aware of the EU’s financial support to the country, and 62 per cent say that the support is effective.
The EU has funded 2019 opinion polls in Georgia through its ‘EU neighbors east’ project.
The survey took place between February and April 2019 thorough Georgia, involving 1,000 people.
The annual survey is now into its fourth year – the survey was first carried out in 2016.
The diplomas issued by Georgian universities will soon become approved by the European educational system. The country’s National Centre for Educational Quality Enhancement is becoming a member of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA).
The Georgian parliament has presented the action plan of the implementation of the EU Association Agreement (EUAA) for 2019-2020, defining the parliament’s activities in the process.
The European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) has given yet another green light to Georgian visa liberalisation.
The November 2017 Eastern Partnership Summit should pave the way to set up a trust fund for Eastern partners and reward reforms by offering them customs union, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) say.
Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova, three Eastern Partnership countries, have signed a joint statement on the creation of a format of the EU plus the three countries for sectoral integration in transport, energy and other fields and to have full access to four liberties of the EU - free movement of goods, services, capital and the labour force. The statement, which has been signed earlier today on the sidelines of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Bratislava, has been handed to a High Representative of the EU.
EU Neighbours East has presented its fifth annual survey report, which reads that 69 per cent of people in Georgia trust the European Union, while 77 per cent of Georgians feel relations with the European Union are good.