MP Sharmanashvili: Powerful forces are obstructing Georgia-EU relations, whether you call them the ‘deep state’ or the ‘global war party’

“It is an absolute reality that relations between Georgia and the European Union are being obstructed,” MP Tengiz Sharmanashvili, Deputy Chairman of the Georgian Parliament’s Defence and Security Committee, said.

According to Sharmanashvili, Georgia’s Prime Minister has addressed this issue, noting that these groups pose such a grave threat that naming them is not worth the risk.

“There are formidable forces at work, call them whatever you like: the ‘deep state’, the ‘global war party’, or the far-left international. The fact remains that they are powerful forces exerting influence first and foremost over the European bureaucracy. They certainly have the ear of individual national leaders, yet the European bureaucracy is entirely under their thumb.

That is why we find it astonishing that they even accuse us of falsehoods in direct defiance of the obvious facts. How could Moldova possibly be ahead of us by any metric, criterion, or data anywhere? Yet they claim it is.

The most absurd part is that they conduct these assessments themselves, name us as the frontrunner in individual components, and then, when it comes to the final tally, declare, ‘You are laggards; you trail behind Moldova.’ Why? Because the Euro-bureaucracy receives a directive and has no interest in reality. They no longer even care about perceptions; they simply resort to barefaced, outright lies,” Sharmanashvili said.