The lukewarm Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga further outlined the value of Georgia’s two most important interconnected strategic goals: transforming the country into a modern European state and its European perspective of joining the EU.
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Thousands of Georgians despair as Greece halts money transfers
TBILISI, DFWatch–The crisis in Greece has also hit hard for as many as 200,000 Georgians who are living and working in the country, and their families back home in Georgia.
Money transfers are currently halted, as well as trailer transport. The crisis in Greece
On the road. A story of one Iraqi refugee in Georgia
Tbilisi, DFWatch – According to the estimates from the UNCHR, as of December 2014 there were over 1200 asylum seekers and over 800 refugees in Georgia. 26 year old Mustafa Shalan is one of them. His story, which he told me one spring afternoon in a sunny balcony in the center of Tbilisi, is a tale of a young man seeking a place to settle, as he is no longer welcome at home.
Judicial committee joins president in resisting National Bank bill
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian parliament’s judiciary committee agree with the president about a proposed bill to strip away the bank supervisory function from the National Bank, claiming that it violates the constitution.
Committee chair Vakhtang Khmaladze said on Friday
Georgian president to veto National Bank bill
TBILISI, DFWatch–For at least the second time, the situation between the Georgian parliament and the president has become tense. Now the president plans to veto an initiative concerning the president of the National Bank.
Since the president and non-governmental
Alexandre (Alika) Rondeli, in memoriam
Alexandre Rondeli (Alika for most of his Georgian friends and colleagues) was a charming and talented man, a close friend, a consul, a strategic ally, from the category of “usual suspects”, and, at times, a political opponent. Most of the people who dealt with him called him a “Wise Man of the Caucasus,” at times because he
A small crowd in Tbilisi rallied to support Yerevan protesters
Tbilisi, DFWatch — A crowd of a few dozen gathered in front of the Armenian embassy in Tbilisi on Wednesday afternoon to show their solidarity with protesters in Yerevan.
One of the rally organizers Rezo Karanadze
Website selling UEFA Super Cup tickets goes down
TBILISI, DFWatch–The website biletebi.ge, which is responsible for selling tickets for UEFA Super Cup 2015, went down Monday morning.
Administrators claim they have been the target of a cyber attack and that enormous amounts of users have tried to enter the site at the same time.
Tbilisi's escaped zoo animals: Bear and hyena still not accounted for
TBILISI, DFWatch–As Tbilisi reels from the shock of a tiger attack which killed one man in a warehouse around noon today, a bear and a hyena may still be on loose in a city with a million inhabitants. The man who was killed by an escaped zoo tiger has been identified as a worker at … Read more
