Three German parties forming a new coalition government have stated their support for the Eastern Partnership nations' admission into the European Union, including Georgia.
The Social Democrats, Greens, and Free Democrats reached an agreement to establish a new administration in Germany, with Olaf Scholz taking over as chancellor from Angela Merkel.
To 'further deepen' the Eastern Partnership, the new alliance has agreed to work with the EU and its member states.
They said that states aspiring to join the EU, such as Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia, should be able to converge via systematic reforms based on the rule of law and the market economy.
The Eastern Partnership is a cooperative endeavour between EU member states and their Eastern European partners — Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine – that was started in 2009.
Georgia's foreign ministry claimed ten years after the initiative's inception that the country had fully used all the chances it provided.
In June 2021, Belarus suspended its membership in response to strict economic sanctions imposed by the EU.
