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Georgia is being roiled by some of the largest and angriest protests in its modern history after its parliament passed a law that will force NGOs receiving substantial support from abroad to register as "foreign-funded organisations". Decried by opponents as the "Russian law" because of its resemblance to legislation imposed by the Kremlin, the Foreign Influence Law marks a major blow against pro-democracy NGOs working against electoral corruption. But their troubles did not begin with the law's passage. Nino Dolidze is the director of the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy...
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The so-called "Russian law" is to play a crucial role before next October's Georgian parliamentary elections. The ruling party, Georgian Dream, is willing to reduce drastically the political weight of the NGOs that have been receiving funding from abroad, especially from the EU and the US. Through the formally defined "foreign influence" law, the Kremlin-friendly Georgian government and parliamentary majority aim to force the NGOs that receive more than 20% of funding from abroad to register as "foreign agents". A number of international human rights NGOs with a presence in Georgia, including ...
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Twenty years ago this week, the European Union saw the biggest enlargement round ever. On May 1st, 2004, ten states simultaneously joined the bloc, seven of them from beyond the former Iron Curtain. Some called it the “Big Bang”. In a rather mute celebration, the European institutions in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg were lit up for the occasion this week. EU Council President Charles Michel advocated new members: “Enlargement is vital for the future of the EU because without enlargement there is, in fact, a risk for a new Iron Curtain, and this would be extremely dangerous, if you would...
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On 1 May 2004, the leaders of 10 acceding countries presented their flags to Pat Cox, the then European Parliament president. The EU grew from 15 to 25 with the inclusion of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The bloc now includes 27 countries - Croatia was the most recent addition, joining in 2022. The UK chose to leave the group in June 2016. The 10 member states represented a 20 percent increase in population, and the EU territory increased by almost the same percentage. The total GDP grew by about nine percent, while the GDP ...
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"Enlargement is vital for the future of the EU because without enlargement [there is] a risk for a new Iron Curtain," Michel said in an interview with a select group of journalists. "It would be extremely dangerous if you would have an unstable neighbourhood with a lack of prosperity or lack of economic development. These are our common interests - of candidate countries and the EU - to make progress, to speed up," he added. His stark warning comes on the anniversary of the so-called big bang enlargement of 2004 when ten countries - including seven former Soviet republics or satellite states -...
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Over the past five years, the European Parliament shaped much of the legislation that have had a direct impact on the lives of 450 million Europeans. The last plenary session before June's European elections saw a marathon of votes, with no less than 89 legislative texts and seven resolutions, in four days. At the opening of the session, President Roberta Metsola summarized her assessment of the mandate: "We have listened, we have learnt, we have broken the bubbles of Brussels and Strasbourg to engage and reach people in all member states. We have worked hard to ensure that this house is more ...
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Twenty years after the European Union's 2004 "Big Bang" enlargement, we have seen it all: perceptions and reflections have been morphing from enthusiasm to fatigue, from hope to fear, from aspiration to disappointment. With the wisdom of the past two decades and seven different waves of enlargement since the beginning of the European project, it would probably be appropriate to celebrate this "big bang" anniversary with facts and figures to dispel emotional debates ahead of the EU elections in June. The three-year-long war in Ukraine has pushed the issue of enlargement to the forefront of the ...
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Serbia's path to EU membership now depends on its silent consent for Kosovo's assent to international organisations, such as the UN and Council of Europe. EU foreign affairs ministers gathering in Luxemburg on 22 April agreed to amend a key part of the document concerning Serbia's negotiations to join the EU, known as Chapter 35. The change means Brussels will freeze Serbia's accession process into the bloc if it doesn’t implement an agreement on normalising its relationship with Kosovo. The main condition for Serbia to comply with is that it must stop obstructing Kosovo's efforts to join key ...
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"I want to be clear: this bill voted in the parliament – this is not bringing Georgia closer to the EU. This is the opposite," Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, told Euronews on Friday morning. "We are disappointed that this government made such a decision," he added. Georgia was in December declared an official candidate to join the bloc, fulfilling the former Soviet republic's long-running aspiration. The decision was "fundamental," says Michel, who now expects Tbilisi to send "more positive signals" to Brussels. Asked if the nascent accession process might be frozen as ...
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The legislation would require media and non-profit organisations to register as "pursuing the interests of a foreign power" if they receive more than 20% of their funds from abroad, a provision that critics say would be exploited to target and muzzle independent voices. First proposed and later withdrawn last year by the ruling party, Georgian Dream, a nearly identical version of the law has been tabled again, prompting mass protests. Despite the growing contestation, the Georgian parliament advanced the law on Wednesday with 83 votes in favour and zero against in a first reading boycotted by ...
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