DFWatch staff TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili claims that the Netherlands wants to copy Georgia’s health care system.
He said this during his annual speech to parliament on February 28.
Speaking about the system implemented in Georgia, he said new hospitals
TBILISI, DFWatch – EU foreign ministers have issued a paper setting out to integrate Georgia more in the Union.
The paper is a broad review of relations between Georgia and the EU and the country’s security.
It notes that there has been progress in the Eastern
TBILISI, DFWatch – EU says parliamentary and presidential elections in Georgia should meet internationally recognized standards of democracy.
A statement published on the EU’s Council on the South Caucasus webpage says the EU acknowledges Georgia’s European
TBILISI, DFWatch – An opposition politician in the former Soviet republic of Georgia accuses the government of lying about when three servicemen died last week.
Salome Zourabichvili, Georgia’s former Foreign Minister, accuses the government of having postponed the sad
TBILISI, DFWatch – The European Union’s commissioner for trade issues, Karel de Gucht, will arrive in Georgia today on February 28 and will start negotiations with Georgia about a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement.
Moldova is also offered the same kind of
TBILISI, DFWatch – When Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili comes to parliament this evening to make his speech about the state of the nation, groups and opposition parties will be demonstrating outside.
The press office of the Free Georgia Party announced the
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s billionaire-backed opposition movement, Georgian Dream, is not going to reconsider the country’s participation in the ISAF operation in Afghanistan.
Press spokesperson Maya Pandzhikidze said this at a regular briefing on February 27.
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Black Sea port of Batumi has been chosen as host for the OSCE Economic Forum in May, Georgia’s Vice Speaker of Parliament Gigi Tsereteli told journalists Monday.
Tsereteli says the decision was taken a few days ago after a meeting of
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian authorities have issued fines to an opposition figurehead and his associates totaling 363 000 US dollars.
The businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, who since October 2011 has been gradually building a base within the country’s politics, was
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian president will make his annual speech to parliament tomorrow, February 28, at 20:00.
Speaker of Parliament Davit Bakradze announced this today at a bureau session.
“The best air time was picked for the president’s visit and speech