Parliament Speaker: Calls are growing within the EU to draw a line between state sovereignty and foreign interference; this is what citizens demand

“Georgia’s statements are criticised by those who want a union modelled on a new ‘International’, where different states are governed from a single centre,” Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili said.

The Speaker was responding to a question regarding remarks by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who declared that “Spain is governed not from Washington, Moscow, Buenos Aires, or Tel Aviv, but from Spain,” adding that his government would not allow the country to become “the backyard of any far-right organisation.”

According to Papuashvili, common sense is increasingly gaining ground across the European Union.

“We are hearing growing calls from various member states within the EU that a clear line must be drawn between state sovereignty and external interference. This is what the EU’s own citizens are demanding. Governments that fail to heed this demand, as we can see, no longer command the support of their own populations.

In Germany and France, approval ratings for the ruling authorities have fallen below 20 per cent, hovering around 10 per cent. This demonstrates that the governments of these countries no longer represent the will of their people, including on the fundamental issue of acting in the sovereign interests of their own citizens,” Papuashvili said.