Today it is, of course, very difficult to bring about a breakthrough in these relations. You can see that the collective bureaucracy in Brussels won’t let go of thinking about how to somehow return the collective “National Movement” to power, the Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told Georgian journalists in China.He said the government hopes that the European bureaucracy’s attitude toward the Georgian people will change.

Kobakhidze said his team will wait to see how events unfold.

“In this situation, of course, it is very difficult to even think about any kind of breakthrough. However, we will wait for the development of events. We hope that in the future the European bureaucracy’s attitude toward the Georgian people and toward the government elected by the Georgian people will nevertheless change. In that case, of course, it will be possible to bring about a breakthrough in relations,” the Prime Minister said.

Kobakhidze also noted that today European bureaucrats have a simple standard: if elections do not return the collective “National Movement” to power, such elections have no value for them.

“We see that today’s European bureaucracy has a simple standard — if elections do not return the collective ‘National Movement’ to power, such elections have no value for them; if the rule for selecting the Prosecutor General is not one that gives the collective ‘National Movement’ the opportunity to regain influence over the prosecutor’s office, that selection rule also has no value for them,” the Prime Minister added.

Kobakhidze said the legislation related to the judiciary is such that it does not give the collective “National Movement” the opportunity to regain influence over the courts, and that such legislation also has no value for them.

“This is the general approach. These are the standards that apply. We remember very well what happened when the ‘National Movement’ had influence over the judiciary and the prosecutor’s office. It was precisely thanks to that influence that the ‘National Movement’ once formed a bloody regime, which the same European bureaucracy very strongly protected. We do not want that to return to our country. We hope that the European bureaucracy will once and for all cease its patronage of the collective ‘National Movement’ and any attempts connected with returning the collective ‘National Movement’ to power, including with respect to the judiciary and the prosecutor’s office. The collective ‘National Movement’ must never return in Georgia — neither to the courts, nor to the prosecutor’s office, nor to parliament, nor to the government. On the contrary, we are doing everything to remove this collective political force entirely from our political system. Otherwise a healthy, democratic system in Georgia simply cannot develop,” the PrimeMinister said.