According to Maka Bochorishvili, the chair of the Parliament's European Integration Committee, the French National Assembly's support of the draft law on combating external interference confirms that what the Georgian government wanted to emphasize - providing citizens with information about foreign influences, is also relevant for European countries.

According to Bochorishvili, there should be a requirement for any society to have information "that affects the development of the country's policy".

"What happened in France proves once again that foreign influences are a challenge for EU member states as well. This is not the first time that the issue of influences is discussed. The European Commission also worked on the mentioned issue. What we were talking about and what we wanted to emphasize - providing citizens with information about foreign influences, is also relevant for European countries. You know how this issue developed in Georgia, there was speculation about this topic and the "Russian law", which was absolutely irrelevant. The issue is important for European countries and they are discussing it.

External influences and interference are a problem for any democratic state, and there should be a demand for any society to have information that affects the development of the country's policies, especially when it comes to the involvement of civil organizations in the process of making political decisions.

It can be said that we started thinking and talking about this earlier than our European colleagues did, although wrong speculations were given to this issue", said Bochorishvili.