MP Guram Macharashvili, the People’s Power party member, said that based on the opinion of European institutions, Georgia had never been so close to the European Union.

The MP believes that Georgia and the EU should be speaking about the friendly and partnership relations’ intensification instead of “freezing Georgia-EU political relations.”

Guram Macharashvili remarked on the statement of EU Ambassador Pawel Herczynski about Georgia-EU relations.

“It is unclear on what basis the EU Ambassador made this statement. European international institutions consider Georgia to be ahead of not only the candidate countries but also the member countries. Therefore, if we are talking about freezing something, the only thing we can freeze is LGBT propaganda and the radical opposition’s actions.

I have a question for the Ambassador, if tens of millions of Europeans refused LGBT propaganda and fascist politics, do they also want to freeze relations with the EU? Tens of millions of Europeans and leading European states clearly stated they do not support ultraliberal and fascist trends. Georgia will live here as Georgian and European, together with the civilized world. If anyone wants to clarify the relationship, he should look at the map, the economic situation and the Middle Corridor, which starts in China and ends in the European Union through Georgia. How can there be any freezing?

Talks should focus on melting relations and friendship. We speak about that. We are sure there are forces in the EU, as here in society, which will say that they seek partnership relations, family traditions and so on, instead of freezing relations,” Macharashvili told the GPB’s First Channel.

EU Ambassador to Georgia, Pawel Herczynski, said he regretted that the EU-Georgia relations were “undergoing a difficult period.” He added that next week, the EU would decide on the consequences of the enacted Georgian law on Transparency of Foreign Influence.