Georgian PM criticizes EU direction, says “No one can impose on us such a Europe”

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has stated that Georgia would have no place in the European Union if it resembled what he described as recent developments seen in Denmark.

In an interview with Imedi TV, he said "no one can impose on us such a Europe where peaceful protesters are attacked with dogs,” Caliber.Az reports.

“We want membership in a European Union that returns to the values on which it was founded,” he said.

Kobakhidze stressed that Georgia’s aspirations to join the EU depend on the bloc remaining faithful to its founding principles, warning that European institutions must be careful not to lose sight of those values.

“If the European Union is like the one we saw in the case of Denmark, then we have nothing to do in such an EU,” he added.

He also said European officials should be reminded that institutions with only a few decades of history can “easily lose” their original direction if they are not attentive to core principles.

By Bakhtiyar Abbasov