A senior member of the European Parliament has urged the European Union to step up its support for Georgia, warning that democratic regression in the country could serve the interests of an "imperialist colonialist power." Speaking in Brussels, Lith...
US Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has called on Congress to urgently consider the bipartisan MEGOBARI Act, citing what she described as a growing assault on media freedom and democratic institutions...
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili has formally presented Giorgi Gabitashvili, the country’s former Prosecutor General, as the nominee for Auditor General, following the resignation of Tsotne Kavlashvili. Kavlashvili, who stepped down ea...
The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution [https://docs.un.org/en/A/79/L.90]reaffirming the right of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees to return to their homes in Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions of Abkhazia and th...
The press office of ex-Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili reported that she held a phone conversation with European Council President António Costa, initiated by Costa himself, to discuss the current situation in Georgia. According to the state...
Political analyst Davit Zurabishvili, speaking on TV Pirveli, said that while he understands the anger of those who refuse any interaction with the government, activism and protests alone are not enough to bring about political change in Georgia. “P...
Speaking at a special session of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights, Spanish MEP Nacho Sánchez Amor stated that personal sanctions were the only tool available to counter Georgia’s ruling regime, and that these measures had alread...
Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze met with Alejandro Hajdenberg, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission; IMF Executive Director Jeroen Kremers; and IMF’s permanent representative in Georgia, Andrew Jewell. According to the government a...
Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has unveiled a reform of Georgia’s state-owned enterprises, “aiming to improve cost-effectiveness” and generate annual budget savings of more than 52 million GEL. Speaking at a government session on Tuesday, Kobakhid...
Kakha Gogolashvili, Senior Fellow and Director of European Studies at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS), has described fifth President Salome Zourabichvili’s recent call for early elections as a “good intention” ...
