Speaker: Instead of apologising to Georgian justice, Kaja Kallas is slandering and threatening Georgian judges

“Instead of Kaja Kallas apologising on behalf of the European Union to Georgian justice for the previous attacks from the EU side, today she is slandering Georgian judges and threatening them with various punitive measures,” declared Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili.

According to Papuashvili, this no longer has any connection to European values.

“The Georgian Dream Political Council published an open letter several days ago. I think it coincided very well with what we are hearing today, including from the EU High Representative. This clearly proves what we’ve been discussing. Unfortunately, we heard aggressive rhetoric against the Georgian state and Georgian people, slanderous, disinformation attacks, and Soviet-style threats today, including from EU High Representative Kaja Kallas. She personally threatened two Georgian judges with sanctions today. This is the sad path that Brussels has chosen today.

EU citizens should look at this and decide what they want. Do they want to be steered toward the Soviet Union by Brussels bureaucrats who threaten the independent judges of an independent country and its justice system? It’s shameful, simply shameful, what we are hearing. The EU Ambassador typically doesn’t bother with explanations, but I believe it’s necessary to clarify the situation now. We can understand why ambassadors from various countries are seated in the session hall. They sit there to create an intimidating environment for judges, so that such threats can then be heard from the European Union, which was created as a peace project and is now being used as an instrument of attack against the Georgian people, against its justice system.

I will remind everyone— including Kaja Kallas— that similar attacks followed the trials of Mikheil Saakashvili, Nika Melia, and Gvaramia. Today, if it’s Kaja Kallas, then in the past, other officials have threatened the Georgian people, the Georgian state, and Georgian judges. Every time these cases were taken to Strasbourg (ECHR), it turned out that the European Union was mistaken, and the Georgian judges were right. In the case of Saakashvili, Melia, and Gvaramia, the EU was wrong, and the Georgian judges were right each time.

Instead of Kallas apologising on behalf of the European Union to Georgian justice for the previous attacks from the EU side, which turned out to be complete disinformation, slander, today she is slandering Georgian judges, threatening them with various punitive measures. This no longer has any connection to European values. Regrettably, the post-Soviet political elite has so devalued Brussels, its authority, turning it into an instrument of ordinary Soviet-style attacks,” Papuashvili declared.

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas stated before the start of the EU Foreign Affairs Council: “We are considering what more we can do, all options are on the table, including suspending the visa-free regime, which will force the Georgian government to recalculate.”

When Kallas was also asked whether she would confirm information about targeted sanctions, she noted that two judges are included in the sanctions package.