Critics fearfulness it could beryllium utilized to stifle nan property and non-governmental organisations and derail nan country’s chances of joining nan European Union. Georgia has been a campaigner state since December 2023.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has joined nan bloc's overseas argumentation main successful condemning constabulary unit successful Georgia that continued aft parliament passed a arguable overseas power transparency law.
Writing connected X, von der Leyen said: "I americium pursuing nan business successful Georgia pinch awesome interest and condemn nan unit connected nan streets of Tbilisi."
"The Georgian group want a European early for their country. Georgia is astatine a crossroads. It should enactment nan people connected nan roadworthy to Europe."
Dubbed nan 'Russian law', nan measure requires media and non-commercial organisations to registry arsenic 'pursuing nan interests of a overseas power' if they person much than 20% of their backing from abroad.
Similar authorities adopted successful Russia was utilized to thief soundlessness voices and groups captious of nan Kremlin.
Critics fearfulness it could beryllium utilized to stifle nan property and non-governmental organisations and derail nan country’s chances of joining nan European Union. Georgia has been a campaigner state since December 2023.
"I deliberation nan readiness of group to conflict for their freedom, to conflict for their European future, is truthful precocious that we will decidedly flooded and we will decidedly take sides our state nary matter really agelong it takes," said Elene Khostaria, leader of nan guidance Droa Party.
"We will protestation and we will win," she said.
Support for EU rank among Georgia’s 3.7 cardinal citizens is arsenic precocious arsenic 81%, according to a 2022 canvass by nan National Democratic Institute.
But supporters of nan bill, projected by nan ruling Georgian Dream party, opportunity it is basal to guarantee transparency and nationalist sovereignty.
President Salome Zourabichvili took to societal media to criticise nan constabulary consequence to Tuesday night's demonstrations, which saw immoderate protesters beaten and astatine slightest 63 arrested.
She described nan constabulary unit arsenic "totally unwarranted, unprovoked and retired of proportion".
Zourabichvili has vowed to veto nan measure but nan ruling statement tin override that by collecting 76 votes.
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