PM Kobakhidze urges European bureaucracy to abandon attempts to return opposition to power

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has called on the "European bureaucracy" to reconsider what he described as its "comical attitude" towards Georgia and abandon alleged attempts to change the government and return the opposition to power, while claiming that the European Union itself suspended political dialogue with Georgia in June 2024.

Speaking to the press on Monday, Kobakhidze said European officials had repeatedly sought to bring representatives of what he called the "collective United National Movement" back to power but had failed because Georgian voters rejected them.

"They tried five times to return Gvaramia, Bokuchava, Khabeishvili and these people to power, but they can see that the Georgian people do not accept them and do not return them to the government," Kobakhidze said.

The prime minister said the Georgian government remained open to cooperation and was even prepared to "forget everything they did against the Georgian people over the past five years."

Kobakhidze also criticised European policy towards Georgia in relation to the Black Sea, describing the situation as evidence of an "absolutely comical" approach within the European bureaucracy.

Turning to relations between Georgia and the EU, Kobakhidze claimed that the European side had formally suspended political dialogue with Georgia in June 2024.

He alleged that EU-funded NGOs and organisations had been directly involved in attempts to organise revolutions in Georgia in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Kobakhidze also claimed that a European Commission spokesperson had supported a protest in autumn 2025 whose stated aim was the "overthrow" of the government.

He argued that European institutions had themselves created the conditions that led to the suspension of political dialogue and said Georgian society no longer attached value to what he described as the European bureaucracy's "shameful games."

Kobakhidze said the Georgian government would continue acting in accordance with the interests of the Georgian people and the country's national interests.