The EU has confirmed that the annual human rights dialogue meeting scheduled with Georgia in Brussels for 21 November has been postponed, with reports indicating that the EU cancelled the meeting due to there being a sanctioned Georgian official amongst the delegation.
The EU’s foreign affairs spokesperson, Anita Hipper, told Georgian independent media outlet Netgazeti the meeting had been postponed ‘due to circumstances hindering the Georgian side’.
Netgazeti has reported that the meeting had been indefinitely postponed. They cited Realpolitik as saying that the annual meeting was cancelled due to the Georgian Dream ‘government’s attempt to include sanctioned individuals in the delegation’.
Alexandre Crevaux-Asatiani, the opposition United National Movement (UNM) party’s foreign spokesperson, has similarly claimed that the meeting was cancelled due to the presence of a sanctioned individual.
🇪🇺🇬🇪 BREAKING: The European Commission has cancelled the Annual EU-Georgia Human Rights Dialogue, a major mechanism meant to address human rights shortcomings in candidate countries, after the Ivanishvili regime included a SANCTIONED official in its delegation.
— Alexandre Crevaux-Asatiani (@CrevauxAsatiani) November 18, 2025
The nerve. pic.twitter.com/R1NOyUn4hL
It is unclear which individuals were to attend the meeting or the nature of any sanctions imposed on them. The EU as a body has not imposed sanctions on any Georgian officials, however, several EU member states have placed Georgian officials under sanctions of various kinds, including Czechia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.
Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning
