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West German citizens gathering at a newly created opening in the Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz in November 1989. Image via Britannica.
2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections

Georgian opposition interpret German Embassy post about Berlin Wall as ‘warning’ to Georgian Dream

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Georgia’s opposition groups have interpreted a German Embassy post commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall as a warning to the ruling Georgian Dream party. The German Embassy has denied the post’s relation to current events in Georgia. ‘Peaceful revolution is possible. The fall of the Berlin Wall is an example of this’, the Embassy wrote in a post on Facebook on 9 November. ‘For decades, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had its citizens locked in a system of oppression and violence. The

The NATO Summit in Washington. Official photo.
European Union

NATO declaration cuts reference to Georgia’s membership prospects

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The NATO declaration adopted at a Washington summit does not reference Georgia’s path towards membership, as Georgia’s rift with the West continues to deepen. In the declaration adopted on Wednesday, Georgia is mentioned only once, in a call on Russia to ‘withdraw all of its forces from the Republic of Moldova and Georgia, stationed there without their consent’. The 2008 Bucharest and 2018 Brussels Summit Declaration stated that NATO ‘welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirat

Zurab Adeishvili (left) and Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin in the German Parliament. Image via X.
Belgium

Georgia criticises EU and Ukraine over wanted former UNM officials

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Georgia has requested that Germany and the EU detain and extradite Zurab Adeishvili, a wanted former United National Movement (UNM) official, after he took part in an official visit to Brussels and Berlin as part of a Ukrainian delegation. Georgia’s Prosecutor’s Office submitted its request for Adeishvili’s extradition on Monday. Adeishvili is wanted in Georgia on charges of abuse of power and the humiliation and inhumane treatment of prisoners while serving as Prosecutor General and then Ju

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