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EU STOPS GEORGIA'S ACCESSION PROCESS
The European Union said it has halted Georgia's accession process and frozen 30 million euros in aid to the Georgian Defense Ministry, after the country's lawmakers passed a law seen as a measure to suppress dissent.
The EU's ambassador to Georgia, Pawel Herczynski, told reporters in Tbilisi during an event on July 9 that the bloc is considering further measures if the situation in Georgia "deteriorates further".
Herczynski said that this decision is in response to the controversial "Foreign Agents" Law, also known as the Foreign Influence Transparency Law, but also because of the recent anti-democratic steps taken by the Georgian Government.
"The law on transparency of foreign influence is clearly retrograde and the anti-Western, anti-European rhetoric is contrary to the state's stated intention to join the EU," Herczynski said, adding that the decision to stop the accession process Georgia in the EU was undertaken on June 27.
Herczynski said he hopes Tbilisi will reconsider some of its recent decisions once the new government is formed after parliamentary elections to be held in October.
"I sincerely hope that on October 26, Georgians will make the right choice and the new Government, whoever wins the elections, will return quickly and resume the hard work towards Georgia's admission to the EU," Herczynski emphasized.
The President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, called the EU's decision a "response" to the "anti-European and anti-Western rhetoric and actions" of the Government led by the Georgian Dream party. Euronews
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