The German Ambassador to Georgia, Peter Fischer, will soon complete his mission. The ambassador says that during his 40-year diplomatic career, Georgia has differed from other countries in one important way: apart from Georgia, in none of the countries where he worked did he witness a “backslide.” Batumelebi interviewed Peter Fischer. We spoke with him …
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Georgian Dream’s Foreign Ministry Questions Objectivity of European Commission Enlargement Report
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgian Dream responds to the European Commission’s 2025 Enlargement Report, which ranks Georgia as the candidate country with the most negative assessment among the ten candidate countries. In a statement issued by the ministry, it says the European Commission’s critical evaluation is unfounded and “used for yet another round …
Georgia Called ‘Candidate Country in Name Only’ in EU Annual Enlargement Package
The European Commission’s 2025 Enlargement Report delivers its harshest assessment yet of Georgia’s democratic decline, warning that the country’s EU accession process has “de facto reached a halt” following a year marked by repression, human rights violations, and hostile anti-EU rhetoric from the ruling Georgian Dream government. In the 2025 Georgia Report, published on November …
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