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EU-Georgia Relations at a Critical Juncture: A Case for European Strategic Autonomy

2 Sep 2022

The EU co- aggression which formed the Geneva International Discussions2 in the same year to cope with the had violating consequences of Georgia's August 2008 war, and it was the only platform on which the Georgia's territorial Kremlin and Tbilisi discussed security and humanitarian issues relating to the breakaway integrity and did regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia/Tskhinvali region. [...] Contentious appointments to the Supreme Court and the High Council of Justice led to strong criticism from the EU, since Brussels has always been firm about and sensitive to the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary. [...] In themselves from January 2022, several members of the European Parliament cancelled their visit to Tbilisi, the idea of EU since the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia "did not find the time to engage." To membership, balance these positions, the President of Georgia, Salome Zourabishvili, visited the EU Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova have institutions and reaffirmed the country's commitment to. [...] However, the GD ruling party distanced itself from the CSOs' guidelines, even though the NGO sector has expressed its readiness to actively cooperate with the government to fulfil the "EU tasks," while the EU Delegation recently The question of called for CSO inclusion in the EU reforms process. [...] invasion of Ukraine (2022) has brought the Black Sea and Recommendations for EU-Georgia relations the Caucasus to the forefront of international ● The Georgian government and parliament should immediately start implementing the politics, and 12 recommendations of the European Commission and take criticism seriously.
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