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...
Georgian prime minister Irakli Garibashvili will on Wednesday meet with Charles Michel, the European Council president, in Belgium, the Council reported on Monday. Garibashvili will also hold other high-level, bilateral meetings while in Brussel...
Domestic civil society organizations and opposition representatives on Monday slammed ombudsperson Levan Ioseliani for his “wrong reactions” on media prank by Irakli Korshia, a journalist in the opposition-minded Mtavari channel, who on Sunday phoned...
Kakha Kaladze, the secretary general of the ruling Georgian Dream party and Tbilisi mayor, who earlier played in Milan, on Monday expressed his “deepest condolences” over the death of Silvio Berlusconi, a controversial Italian politician and the coun...
Levan Khabeishvili, the chair of the United National Movement opposition party, on Monday rejected media reports on nominating the currently imprisoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili for premiership ahead of the 2024 parliamentary elections. ...