The question is simple - is the European Union going to follow its declared values and publicize its expenses in Georgia?! Should he follow his declared principles so that his finances in Georgia are transparent?! We want an answer to this from European officials! It's even a shame that in the 21st century, we are told that the money spent in Georgia should be hidden, - Speaker of Parliament Shalva Papuashvili told journalists when he responded to the question regarding the joint statement of Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and Donald Tusk.
According to him, funds from the EU budget are secretly spent in Georgia.
"The question of what are European values is open. We are often spoken to from this chair of European values, although there is already a question mark among Georgians as to whether we understand the meaning of these European values in the same way. For Georgians, it is inconceivable that it would be a European value to covertly spend money in another country in order to influence the politics of another country. This is certainly not a European value. If any European thinks so, then let them say it openly and not so secretly. It is not clear to the Georgian people, can LGBT propaganda in kindergartens and schools be a European value?! They tell us then that this turns out to be European value, we were wrong until now and thought Europe and European value were something else. We are Georgians, yes, co-creators of European values. Georgian culture is a co-creator of European culture. Therefore, when we talk about European values, we are talking, first of all, about Georgian values. They tell us, explain to us, if European values are secretly spent in another country, then it turns out that we understand these values in different ways; If LGBT propaganda in schools and kindergartens is a European value, if schools and kindergartens promote a European value that there are countless genders, then it turns out that we understand the European value in different ways. That is why they tell us directly what the European value is.
As for the "Transparency Law", it is one of the main European value laws. This law implies that funds spent from public sources, and especially funds spent from abroad to another country, must be transparent. This is a European value. Let someone come out and say that the opacity of spending money in another country is a European value, and I really wonder who will say that!
Funds from the EU budget are spent secretly in Georgia. For example, "European Democracy Fund" secretly spends money in Georgia, including politics. This has repeatedly become a matter of scandal. The question is simple, is the European Union going to follow its declared values and make public its own expenses, its own budget expenses in Georgia?! Is he going to follow his declared principles so that his finances in Georgia are transparent?! We are interested in this and we want an answer from European officials! It is even a shame that in the 21st century they directly prove to us that the money spent in Georgia should be hidden. We all see the harmful effects of this money in Georgia when we find out that radical political parties are financed from the EU budget. This has been proven many times. In a personal conversation with me, some European Chinese confirmed that he saw, for example, the list of projects of the "European Democracy Fund" and agreed with me that the political agenda was definitely visible in this financing. However, I was refused to ask him to show me this list. Let everyone stop hypocrisy and be guided by the values we stand for, all Europeans, Georgia also stands as a European country," Papuashvili said.