“It makes no difference what the EU thinks is right or wrong for Georgia. The EU representatives simply do not have to side with a particular political movement in foreign countries. Georgia decides for itself in the election whether it will join the EU or not,” said Steffen Kotré, a member of the German Bundestag from the AfD parliamentary group in Bundestag during a discussion on Georgia.

Steffen Kotré touched on the Georgian Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence and remarked that the law was “completely legal and legitimate.”

“This motion is nothing other than interference in the internal affairs of foreign states. It makes no difference what the EU thinks is right or wrong for Georgia. The EU representatives simply do not have to side with a particular political movement in foreign countries. Georgia decides for itself in the election whether it will join the EU or not. And the government and parliament are democratically elected. But the EU propagandists are discriminating against the transparency law, although this transparency law is completely legal and legitimate, and it is not regulated any differently than in Japan, the USA or Israel, for example, and it is the right of a state to know who is active in its territory,” he said.

According to the Bundestag member, “there is a collective attack on Georgia as an independent state” and by showing up at anti-transparency law rallies in Tbilisi, MEPs demonstrated their “undemocratic and interventionist face.”

“And the previous speaker, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr Roth, and other foreign EU agents appeared at a demonstration in the Georgian capital Tbilisi. As a foreigner, you loudly propagated propaganda against the elected government and the elected parliament. And in doing so, you are showing your undemocratic and interventionist face, ladies and gentlemen. And in doing so, you are essentially contributing to division and internal conflict as an instigator. And the Georgian MP Irakli Kadagishvili said the same thing.

There is a collective attack on Georgia as an independent state. Western politicians are coming to support the demonstrators and radicalize the situation. And it doesn’t matter what the purpose is, interference remains interference. And we can see where such interference leads in Ukraine. Without external influence, without foreign funding of the Maidan and the coup in 2014, Ukraine would never have allowed itself to be positioned against Russia in this way. If the EU interventionists are now getting so involved, it would be interesting to know whether an orange revolution isn’t already being planned somewhere or whether money isn’t being spent somewhere again, money is being spent to exert a certain influence.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution should take a look at this. The AfD, as a peace party, rejects unipolar, patronizing and value-exporting politics. In a world of emerging multipolarity, there are countries with different traditions, customs and values. And that is exactly what we should respect,” he said.