Georgian Dream targeted critics with a statement blending the so-called Global War Party, the Deep State, migration, George Soros, and LGBT propaganda.
The European Union delegation in Georgia has stated that the country will lose €121 million ($130 million) in EU funding ‘as a result of democratic backsliding’. On Tuesday, an EU representative explained that ‘annual allocations are not all spent in the same year, hence remaining funds from 2022 and 2023 directly benefiting the authorities will be lost’. According to a post on Facebook by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for EU Neighbourhood and Enlargement, the money was ‘w
The threat of further Western sanctions against Georgian officials over democratic backsliding in the country has led to reports of alarm within the ruling Georgian Dream party, weeks ahead of parliamentary elections. On Wednesday, TV channel Formula reported citing confidential sources that bank accounts abroad belonging to the children of Georgian Dream founder and billionaire, Bidzina Ivanishvili, had been limited. TV station Mtavari Arkhi also reported on Wednesday that Ivanishvili h
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has claimed that leaders of the ‘radical opposition’ might be ‘at risk’ of attacks orchestrated by ‘the Collective National Movement’ in a bid to discredit the ruling Georgian Dream party. In a press briefing on Wednesday, Kobakhidze stated that the ‘collective National Movement’ were planning on staging attacks on leaders of the ‘radical opposition’ to discredit the government and October’s parliamentary elections. Georgian Dream refers to most pro-
The US State Department has said it does not rule out further measures in response to Georgia’s controversial foreign agent law, adding that Washington’s review of its relations with the Georgian Government was ongoing. In a press briefing on Tuesday, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller stated that the Georgian government ‘continues to move in a deeply troubling direction, one that moves the country further away from its Euro-Atlantic trajectory, which the Georgian people, we kn
Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili was mocked for delivering a campaign speech behind bulletproof glass in Mtskheta, while Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze and other senior officials delivered their remarks from a separate, unprotected podium. Ivanishvili, Georgia’s former Prime Minister and billionaire founder of the ruling party, delivered his speech in Mtskheta, north of Tbilisi, on Thursday. The campaign event was only announced six hours prior. In his speech, Ivanishvili largely
The US has suspended more than $95 million in aid to the Georgian government, citing its ‘anti-democratic actions’ and ‘false statements’ about the West and Washington. On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken published a statement describing the Georgian government’s recent actions and statements as ‘incompatible with membership norms in the EU and NATO’. The statement came hours before the controversial foreign agent law came into force. From 1 August, organisations that r
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