The Chairman of the Georgian Parliament’s European Integration Committee, Levan Makhashvili, has announced that the Speaker Shalva Pauashvili will have a “substantially packed agenda” in Budapest.

According to Makhashvili, the Speaker will address participants of the Conference of Speakers of EU Member and Partner Countries’ Parliaments multiple times, with numerous bilateral meetings also planned.

“The main purpose and theme of the summit is to discuss how the EU envisions itself both in the geopolitical changes currently unfolding worldwide and internally – what institutional decisions might be taken while better respecting the autonomy, identity and traditions of national states in ways that maintain relevance amid ongoing changes for global actors and their own citizens,” Makhashvili stated.

The Speaker will deliver two addresses during the conference. The first will focus on geopolitical changes and “how Georgia sees both itself and the EU within these changes.” The second speech will address “the role of national identities and respect for traditions on one hand, and the EU’s approach toward these processes on the other.”

Makhashvili added that bilateral meetings are scheduled with parliamentary speakers from both larger and smaller EU member states, covering education, trade and economic issues alongside Georgia-EU relations.

“We will discuss how we envision reloading these relations – where we came from, where we stand, where we might go, and what steps we could take bilaterally in the future to restore these relations,” he said, adding that “geopolitical changes demand proactive and constructive dialogue from us, not the childish actions we sometimes see from Brussels bureaucracy.”