The European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has passed the draft report on Georgia with amendments. The document was supported by 55 MEPs, 14 voted against and 4 abstained, APA reports citing Inter Press News.
The final version of the document approved by the committee has not yet been published on the European Parliament’s website, although the initial version of the draft report, presented by MEP Rasa Juknevičienė, is known.
According to the draft document, the European Parliament expresses deep regret over the fact that the ruling Georgian Dream party failed to use the historic opportunity granted to Georgia, as a candidate country, to progress on its European integration path, noting that European integration is supported by the majority of the population; underlines Georgia has not moved forward, and has in fact even regressed, on the key provisions of the nine steps indicated by the Commission, despite the authorities’ claims to the contrary; stresses that Georgia’s EU integration process has effectively been suspended as a result of the continued democratic backsliding in the country and the adoption of anti-democratic legislation that runs counter to the values and principles upon which the EU is founded.
Underlines the role that Bidzina Ivanishvili has played in the deterioration of the political process in Georgia by enabling democratic backsliding and by acting against the country’s constitutionally declared interests of Euro-Atlantic integration; calls, therefore, for immediate and targeted personal sanctions to be introduced against him, his family members and his companies and for his known assets in the EU to be frozen
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