“Our purpose in pursuing the EU membership is, indeed, to ensure a safer and more secure future,” Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili shared on social media.

According to Papuashvili, that the EU was created for peace does not necessarily mean the peace is guaranteed. Europe should not give in to self-indulgence, he said, adding that Georgians know all too well that peace is never more than a blink away from extinction.

“Our purpose in pursuing the EU membership is, indeed, to ensure a safer and more secure future.

However, before one reaches the destination, one must first tread the path. Knowing the haven’s coordinates means little if one throws the ship and the passengers into the storm.

It was the foresight, not the hurriedness, that enabled the Georgian people to survive through the millennia. Therefore, in today’s crazed world, our primary concern, on the path to the European Union, is not to damage and destroy ourselves to the extent that we have nothing left to secure after reaching the EU.

That the EU was created for peace does not necessarily mean the peace is guaranteed. Being a peace project means being a responsible force. Europe should not give in to self-indulgence. We Georgians know all too well that peace is never more than a blink away from extinction.

What the EU’s Georgia Mission’s well-trodden propagandistic campaign tells us is that they cannot or do not realise what the Georgians’ main concern is, and what it means to lead the Georgian state and Georgian people into the storm.

Thus, I will explain once more. If one wants to be a peace project:

• In the heat of the war, one should not, as Brussels did, demand from a nation that has recently lived through three wars, to escalate with Russia;
• One should not fund extremism, as Brussels did;
• One should not interfere with the elections, as Brussels did;
• One should not slander the entire nation, as Brussels did;
  One should not rummage wrongly in Georgians’ millennial values, as Brussels did.
• These things are easy to say, but they proved too difficult to be done, because it does not suffice to be a cover-page European but requires possessing true Europeanness, i.e. prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance.

Just the kind that the EU’s founding fathers had 75 years ago,” Shalva Papuashvili posted.