
Moldova Votes for EU Membership Amid Allegations of Russian Interference
The referendum, held alongside the presidential election, saw a slim majority in favour of EU integration.
The referendum, held alongside the presidential election, saw a slim majority in favour of EU integration.
The EU’s foreign affairs chief threatened Tbilisi by saying that failure to withdraw the law would “derail” the country’s accession process.
Recent efforts to punish Georgia risk precipitating, rather than deterring, the country’s drift toward Russia.
The sovereigntist, anti-liberal government is being attacked by the West for a law which resembles similar ones throughout the West.
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.”