EU Spokesperson: Georgian Gov’t sing us in disinformation campaign

European Commission spokesperson Anitta Hipper has claimed the Georgian government was attempting to divert attention from facts through disinformation and stresses that Georgia currently held EU candidate status only “in name.”

Speaking on behalf of the European Commission for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, spokesperson Hipper said that the Georgian authorities are trying to shift focus from reality by targeting the European Union through misleading narratives.

“What we are seeing is an attempt to divert attention from facts. The Georgian authorities are using us in a disinformation campaign,” Hipper said.

She recalled that the European Council’s June 2024 conclusions reiterated concerns about Georgia’s democratic backsliding and included a strong warning to the government to reverse course.

“In June 2024, we had the European Council’s conclusions, which repeated concerns about Georgia’s democratic regression and served as a wake-up call for the government to change its course,” Hipper said.

 “But instead of reversing these destructive actions against democracy, we have seen the government intensify them - with the prosecution of opposition leaders, arrests of journalists, and attacks on peaceful protesters,” she added.

Hipper noted that successive reports from the European Commission - including those published in October and December 2024, as well as the most recent 2025 Enlargement Report - had consistently reflected this negative trend.

“We have had the European Commission’s conclusions in October, in December, and again this week in the enlargement package. The result of these actions is that Georgia is now a candidate country only nominally,” Hipper said.