“We see that, regrettably, expectations of fair approaches are shrinking more and more. In recent times Brussels is suffering a values backslide and has completely lost touch with common European values,” Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili said in answer to the question of what Georgia should expect from the European Commission’s Enlargement Report that will be published tomorrow, 4 November.

At the same time, Papuashvili noted that "before Brussels says anything about Georgia, the European Commissioners must first come out, condemn and distance themselves from the violent assault that took place exactly one month ago, on 4 October, on the Georgian President’s Palace".

“Let me remind you first of all that tomorrow is 4 November – exactly one month will have passed since the failed coup d’état in Georgia and the storming of the President’s Palace by people backed from abroad. One month has gone by and the European Commissioners – including Commissioner Kos and Commissioner Kallas – still refuse to condemn the storming of the President’s Palace.

Therefore the Georgian people have only one expectation: that at least after one month Commissioner Kos will finally condemn the violent assault on the President’s Palace, an assault in which 25 police officers were injured, two of them seriously.

To this day the EU Ambassador has not even inquired about the fate and health of those police officers, and neither the EU Ambassador nor his superiors – Commissioner Kos and Commissioner Kallas – have condemned the attack on the President’s Palace.

So the Georgian people expect that, before they say anything at all about Georgia, the very first thing they do is condemn and distance themselves from the violent storming of the President’s Palace.

Among the organisers of the 4 October events were organisations financed by the EU and Brussels, including media organisations.

And let me also remind you that on 4 October, in parallel with the storming of the President’s Palace, various Brussels representatives were openly encouraging and supporting this violence on social media.

Georgia narrowly escaped chaos; no one knows what the outcome would have been without the timely response of our security system, the Interior Ministry and others.

The failure to condemn violence is not accidental – failing to condemn violence means supporting the perpetrators, and this is the regrettable trend we are seeing from Brussels.

It is part of the hostile rhetoric we witnessed at Euronest – a deplorable policy directed against the Georgian people, a policy of ignoring the will of the Georgian people and imposing their own political agenda.

We see that expectations of fair approaches are, sadly, shrinking more and more. In recent times Brussels is suffering a values backslide and has completely lost touch with common European values.

They look at Georgia through the narrow lens of political and geopolitical goals.

This is the unfortunate result of post-Soviet influences in Brussels; in leading positions we see people who view Georgia with a Soviet mentality,” Papuashvili declared.