“Today, we witness an attempt to portray the attack on the Presidential Palace as a ‘fence incident’ orchestrated by an organisation involved in the fraudulent Estonian registration scheme and generously funded from the EU budget,” wrote Shalva Papuashvili, the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, on social media.

As Papuashvili observes, Brussels is increasingly forsaking the values on which the European Union was originally built.

“Today is February 4. Four months have passed since the violent storming of the Georgian presidential palace. During this time, one thing has become undeniably clear: Brussels will neither condemn nor distance itself from the assault on the Presidential Palace. And, frankly, why should it? Why distance itself from what it itself, just a few days earlier, expressed support for through its own spokesperson?

Today, we see an attempt to dismiss the attack, which resulted in more than twenty police officers being hospitalised, as a ‘fence incident’ by the organisation involved in the fake Estonian registration scheme, which is heavily financed from the EU budget. This is no longer silence. It is a stance. A stance that plainly reveals Brussels’ growing departure from the values upon which the EU was founded, and its increasing alignment with hatred, violence, and extremism. If Brussels fails to alter its course drastically, the European Union will remain merely a name, a hollow vessel, devoid of purpose and principle,” Papuashvili states.