Germany: EU must consider formally suspending Georgia’s accession

Germany’s foreign minister said on Thursday that the European Union must consider formally suspending Georgia’s accession process due to the Russia-friendly ruling party’s hostile approach to the bloc and the country’s democratic backsliding. “With its anti-European turn, the Georgian Dream party has deliberately put Georgia’s EU accession process on ice and effectively suspended it,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said in a statement. “In the EU, we should now also discuss a formal sRead More