“When you lecture other nations on equality while treating them as second-class in practice, you always risk being treated the same way yourself,” the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, responded to French President Emmanuel Macron’s reply to statements made by the U.S. President.

“It is not up to the United States to decide what laws we Europeans and the French will have,” the French President said, after having previously criticised Section 4 of Article 3 of Georgia’s Transparency Law.

When you lecture other nations on equality while treating them as second-class in practice, you always risk being treated the same way yourself,” Shalva Papuashvili wrote.

U.S. President Donald Trump is demanding that France scrap taxes on American technology firms, to which French President Emmanuel Macron replied that the United States does not dictate French legislation.