Eastern Partnership

And it actually predates much Georgia's candidate status itself, Sarah, by many years actually.

Security and stability were already there as part of the elements of European neighborhood policy, which Georgia joined in 2004 after the Rose Revolution and later the Eastern Partnership Initiative also.

established or initiated back then by Poland and Sweden in 2009, bringing Georgia into much deeper framework of political association and institutional cooperation.

So the EU-Georgia relationship was never simply about trade or just legislative approximation, definitely not.