On 14 December 2023, the European Council decided to grant Georgia the status of European Union accession candidate country (see EUROPE B13314A1). This news was eclipsed by the decision to open accession negotiations with Ukraine (which, as readers will recall, was a highly contentious matter) and its neighbour, Moldova.
Georgia is far less well-known than either of those and probably the Balkan states as well. It gets very little mention in the media. One could safely say that current...