Estonia FM: Georgia not to join EU on its present course; we consider revoking visa-free travel

10:35, 12.02.2025

“If the authorities continue to use violence, we are ready to continue tightening sanctions, including revoking visa-free travel,” Estonia’s Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said in his annual foreign policy speech at his country’s parliament.

According to Tsahkna, holding new elections is a way to emerge from this crisis and restore trust. FM added that “Georgia will not join the European Union on its present course.”

“Unfortunately, the enlargement of the European Union can also be reversed, as evidenced by the events in Georgia, where the ruling party is taking the country further away from democracy as well as from foreign policy that is oriented towards the West. It is clear that Georgia will not join the European Union on its present course and that the people de facto in power in Georgia have no democratic legitimacy.

We have said that holding new elections is a way to emerge from this crisis and restore trust. If the authorities continue to use violence, we are ready to continue tightening sanctions, including revoking visa-free travel,” Margus Tsahkna stated.

By - Svetlana Alimova

Politics

Margus Tsahkna