🇪🇺 suspended visa-free travel for holders of 🇬🇪 diplomatic, service and official passports. 🇬🇪 has ignored 🇪🇺 recommendations and violated its commitments. Violations have consequences. It's up to Georgian authorities to redress the situation: https://t.co/DT1vvsQaOR
Statement by High Representative/Vice President Kallas and Commissioner for Enlargement Kos on Georgia’s legislative amendments on foreign funding and political activity: https://t.co/DEvFVjeWAX
📢 Starting today, Moldova joins the “Roam Like at Home” zone!
Moldovan citizens traveling in EU countries can make calls, send messages, and use mobile data at the same rates as at home and contact emergency services free of charge. 📱🌐
Russia’s “peace” last night: a massive strike on Kyiv with drones and ballistic missiles.
At least 10 killed, 30 injured, many buildings destroyed.
The EU Delegation was severely damaged by the shock wave.
This is Moscow’s true answer to peace efforts.
Georgia: The politically motivated persecution & arrests of opposition leaders go against basic democratic values.
These are authoritarian tactics, opposite of what is expected from an EU candidate country. Georgian Dream must stop weaponising the justice system.
The brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters, journalists and politicians tonight in Tbilisi is unacceptable.
Georgia falls short of any expectation from a candidate country.
The EU stands with the people of Georgia in their fight for freedom and democracy.
The Georgian people have been protesting against the government’s choice to halt the EU path.
Peaceful protests, met with police violence.
Today we propose visa restrictions for Georgian diplomats.
Our message to the leadership is clear:
Stop harming your own people.
Georgia: The EU deplores the repressive actions against protesters, media representatives & opposition leaders.
Violence is not the answer to the demands for Georgia’s democratic and European future.
We stand in solidarity with the Georgian people. https://t.co/ZS6BltmigB
Statement by the High Representative / Vice-President of the Commission @kajakallas and Commissioner for Enlargement @Marta1Kos on Georgia. ⤵️
https://t.co/AgmBily4uF
We stand with the Georgian people and their choice for a European future.
We condemn the violence against protesters & regret signals from ruling party not to pursue Georgia's path to EU and democratic backsliding of the county.
This will have direct consequences from EU side.
🇬🇪Georgia: Speech by the 🇪🇺HRVP @JosepBorrellF in the @Europarl_EN plenary on the democratic backsliding, delivered by @EU_Commission VP for Values and Transparency @VeraJourova on behalf of the HRVP ➡️https://t.co/lvcOcw3nFR
Watch the video (from 00:20) https://t.co/ZL5pHKxCdS
Georgia🇬🇪 will lose €121 million in EU🇪🇺 assistance, as a result of democratic backsliding.
Annual allocations are not all spent in the same year, hence remaining funds from 2022 and 2023 directly benefitting the authorities will be lost
Georgia: 🇪🇺 deplores the rushed adoption of a discriminatory "family values & protection of minors" law. It undermines fundamental rights & risks stigmatisation. We call on 🇬🇪 authorities to reconsider this harmful legislation and recommit to EU values. https://t.co/iVWL7DIeZl
Today the EU opens accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova.
We stand at the threshold of a key moment for these two countries. Together, we can forge a larger and forward-looking Europe.
The path ahead will be challenging, but also filled with immense opportunitiesToday the EU opens accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova.
We stand at the threshold of a key moment for these two countries. Together, we can forge a larger and forward-looking Europe.
The path ahead will be challenging, but also filled with immense opportunities.
Georgia:🇪🇺calls on 🇬🇪 authorities to halt tendencies of threats & violence against civil society.Political actors should refrain from language fueling extreme polarisation. Authorities should refrain from disinfo about 🇪🇺 👉it impacts negatively our ties.
https://t.co/O8b8F4vCuy
🇬🇪: Statement by 🇪🇺 High Representative @JosepBorrellF with the European Commission @EU_Commission on the final adoption of the law on transparency of foreign influence ⬇️
https://t.co/ZL3tl0e30M
The adoption of the law negatively impacts the country's progress on EU path.
Freedom of association and freedom of expression are fundamental rights at the core of Georgia’s EU commitments.
We urge the Georgian authorities to withdraw the law.
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The EU stands with the Georgian people & their choice for democracy, & w/ the EU future of Georgia.
Intimidations, threats & physical assaults on civic actors, politicians, journalists & their family are unacceptable.
Georgian authorities have to investigate these acts.
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