{"id":117801,"date":"2024-12-16T13:23:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T09:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=117801"},"modified":"2024-12-16T14:16:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T10:16:33","slug":"eu-georgia-complex-relations-it-makes-no-sense-for-georgia-to-join-the-eu-by-abandoning-its-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/117801\/","title":{"rendered":"EU-Georgia complex relations: \u2018It makes no sense for Georgia to join the EU by abandoning its values\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas stated in Brussels before a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council that the <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama\/22679315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">events<\/a> in Georgia do not align with what is expected from a candidate country.<\/p>\n<p>Kallas noted that the Foreign Ministers&rsquo; meeting will discuss sanctions against Georgia and restrictions on the visa-free regime.<\/p>\n<p>She also said the EU is considering imposing personal sanctions on several Georgian politicians, although there is no consensus on the list at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arriving at the EU Foreign Ministers&rsquo; meeting, Xavier Bettel, Luxembourg&rsquo;s foreign minister, declared that the elections in Georgia had been transparent and opposed sanctions against the Georgian Dream party, arguing that they would be &ldquo;sanctions against the elections.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Georgian President-elect Mikheil Kavelashvili stated that &ldquo;it makes no sense for Georgia to join the EU by abandoning its values.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas stated in Brussels before a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council that the events in Georgia do not align with what is expected from a candidate country. Kallas noted that the Foreign Ministers&rsquo; meeting will discuss sanctions against Georgia and restrictions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":117772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,97,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-georgia-en","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}