[chris lindberg]

Originally Posted by Bagor

Can someone explain why he's sitting in front of an EU flag when he's giving interviews?

The flag of the European Union, shown above, flies all over in Georgia.

Georgia even has put its efforts to join the European Union on hold, realizing that the union will not be quick to admit it. Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli said his country sensed an "enlargement fatigue" in the European Union and that discussing EU membership at present was "counterproductive," according to a May 2006 story on the Web site of the U.K. newspaper, The Independent. The European Union in 2004 added the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia, and has at least five countries as candidates ahead of Georgia.

Georgia needs the European Union far more than the European Union needs Georgia. The union's Web site says Georgia participated in 0.03 percent of theEU's 2002 external trade. The European Union accounted for 26 percent of the products Georgia imported and 43 percent of what Georgia shipped out as exports.

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