Georgia’s Elites Decry Color Revolution As Pro-EU Riots Rock Tbilisi
While passing a similar foreign agent bill at home, Brussels is at odds with a proposed law in Georgia to constrain external NGOs ahead of Tbilisi’s 2030 entry to the bloc.
While passing a similar foreign agent bill at home, Brussels is at odds with a proposed law in Georgia to constrain external NGOs ahead of Tbilisi’s 2030 entry to the bloc.
Brussels faces the paradox of accession and enlargement importing potentially rebellious conservative member states from the east.
Atlanticists stoke fears that EU-aspiring Georgia is another Hungary.
“For the U.S. and its henchmen, the territory of the former Union is a ‘country of unlearned lessons,” the former Russian president wrote on the anniversary of the Georgian war, while casually threatening to renew the conflict.
Zourabichvili specifically defended the idea that Georgian EU membership would benefit Europe’s security architecture.
Georgia PM Irakli Garibashvili said in a statement that “any decision that facilitates the life, movement, and business of our citizens is, of course, positive and welcome.”
For its part, the Georgian government maintains that it remains committed to joining the EU.
The U.S. won the battle in Georgia; the American government and globalist Western NGOs will continue to spend tens of billions of dollars each year interfering in Georgia and other nations.
After two nights of riots and mass demonstrations from enraged pro-EU demonstrators, the withdrawal comes as a big win for the opposition in a deeper struggle over their nation’s future.
The decision is above all a symbolic one, as a response to Vladimir Putin who declared only a few weeks ago that the Ukrainian state had never properly existed and had no international legitimacy.