It looks as if Georgia needs a mentor-nation already in the EU to help guide it to EU-full membership!

It may be that a nation-state that wants to join the EU is given a list of things it must do to qualify.  But is it given a member-state in the EU the status of being its mentor to help guide the applicant nation all the way to its becoming a member-state in the EU?

Sending a state to go it alone seems uncaring and renders no encouragement and knowledge--both needed to complete membership requirements--particularly because the process is so lengthy.  

What it really does, is enable those antipathetic to the project in Georgia and in Russia to go all out to prevent completion of the membership process!  You're giving the "enemy" to the Georgian project plenty of opportunity to thwart Georgia's avowed want of membership.

I say a welcoming should be evident in assigning an EU member to work with Georgia to achieve membership in the EU through the lengthy process that well may be worth it!  

My opinion. 

P.S. And if one nation has already been assigned, is the partnership working out?  The entertaining of a "foreign agent" bill in Georgia's legislature, akin to that in practice in Russia, may have the same results--people in prison!