Lithuania's FM: Georgia's adoption of Foreign Influence Law could halt EU path

13:27, 27.05.2024

“I think that the best decision that could come out of our meeting today is that there would be a public update on EU-Georgia relations and Georgia’s EU path,” Gabrielius Landsbergis, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, told reporters in his doorstep remarks at the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels.

“I think the current events have to be reflected, and I hope that there would be very clear signalling from the EU that if the law is adopted in its final version Georgia cannot continue on its EU path no longer. And what does it mean? Well, basically there would be a decision that the candidate status which was given with a condition, and the conditions are not met, that means that the candidate status is there no longer. I mean, politically, yes, because it’s still a political concept, right? So it could be stopped,” he said.

By - Tamar Tabatadze

Politics

Gabrielius Landsbergis

Lithuania