“European bureaucracy is held hostage by its own injustice, and it must overcome the complexes it has created based on that injustice,” declared Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze at a briefing held at the Government Administration.

The head of government stated that if European bureaucracy can overcome its own complexes, resetting relations between Georgia and the European Union could be achieved with ease.

“What matters most in any relationship is fair principles. If relations are not founded on fair principles, those relations have no future. What created the principal problem between Georgia and the EU? It was an injustice, an unjust attitude towards the Georgian people and the Georgian state. There were double standards here, entirely unfair assessments. Georgia is the absolute leader among candidate countries by every measure, in terms of democratic progress, economic advancement, the proper functioning of institutions, and low levels of corruption. By every parameter, Georgia is the absolute leader. Despite that, the European bureaucracy decided to change the Georgian government. Once we had grown stronger and refused to be drawn into the war, they made that decision. Enforcing it required an instrument, and injustice became the only tool available to them.

The EU Ambassador decided to intervene directly in our local democratic elections in 2024, directly calling on Georgian voters to mobilise against the government. Foreign ministers of European countries took to the stage in person; they grew brazen in their injustice. Of course, this created problems and opened a rift in relations, which was entirely logical.

Where there is injustice, healthy relations cannot take root. Consequently, European bureaucracy is now held hostage by its own injustice. They cannot find their way out of this circle. They themselves created this circle of injustice, they themselves locked themselves inside it, and now they can no longer escape it. They must overcome the complexes they have built upon the foundation of their own injustice. If European bureaucracy overcomes its complexes, resetting relations between Georgia and the EU could be very straightforward. In this regard, we extend our hand and wait for them to free themselves from their complexes,” Kobakhidze has said.