The European Union representation in Georgia on Wednesday urged the Georgian authorities to follow the Monday’s recommendations by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe and “not to adopt” the controversial deoligarchisation bill. The Ve...
The “inaccurate” claims by the United States ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan last year that Ukraine had withdrawn its deologarchisation bill from the Venice Commission and there would be “no opinion” presented on the legislative piece, has contrib...
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Wednesday met with Alexander De Croo, his Belgian counterpart, and discussed Tbilisi’s European Union integration prospects ahead of the bloc’s forthcoming decision later this year whether to grant Georg...
The European Commission will on June 22 present an oral report on the implementation of recommendations by Georgia to obtain the European Union’s membership candidate status by the end of this year, as well as how Ukraine and Moldova are fulfilling ...
The ruling Georgian Georgian Dream party late on Tuesday backed the passing of the controversial deoligarchisation bill with its second reading despite the negative opinion on the draft law published by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe ...
Teona Akubardia, an opposition MP, on Tuesday urged the country’s lawmakers to make a joint appeal for support to NATO ahead of the bloc’s Vilnius Summit in July. In her address to the lawmaking body, the MP said the appeal should include the co...
Khatia Dekanoidze, an opposition MP, on Tuesday accused the country’s culture minister Thea Tsulukiani of “fighting culture and identity” by appointing “pro-Kremlin” activists from the “pro-governmental POSTV channel” in managerial posts of the count...
Irakli Kobakhidze, the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Tuesday claimed the GD would reject the deoligarchisation bill if the European Commission removed the adoption of the bill from its 12-point conditions outlined last year for granting...
The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe on Monday published its opinion on the controversial deoligarchisation bill proposed by the ruling Georgian Dream party last year, and recommended the country’s authorities to drop it. Responding to...
The Georgian government on Monday announced it would impose bans on exports of catalytic converters, a device that cleans a vehicle’s exhaust emissions using chemical reactions with precious metals, due to their “mass removals” from cars for the sal...
