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Georgia sits outside the European Union (EU) despite Georgians overwhelmingly supporting a Euro-Atlantic future. In 2022, a poll by the International Republican Institute found that 85 percent of Georgians wanted their country to join the EU, while Georgia’s constitution codifies EU and NATO membership as national priorities. Georgian ambitions received a boost in December 2023, when the country was granted EU candidate status, even as EU concerns about Georgia’s record on rule of law and an entrenched oligarchy remain obstacles to full membership.