The European Commission has made its first comment concerning the letter from the EU Ambassador to Georgia, Paweł Herczyński, which was circulated in the media.

Speaking at a press conference in Brussels, Anitta Hipper, the European Commission’s spokesperson for foreign affairs and security policy, addressed the issue:

“We see yet another attempt to distract from the facts. By now, we are used to the government’s information propaganda, so let’s clarify the facts — already in June 2024, we had the European Commission’s report, which once again reiterated Georgia’s backsliding on the path of democracy. That report served as the first wake-up call to the Georgian authorities to reconsider their chosen course.

We continue to see the same government of the ‘Georgian Dream,’ with the parliamentary majority representing the same party. Instead of changing such destructive actions against democracy, we only witness these actions intensifying — through the persecution of opposition leaders, imprisonment of journalists, and attacks on peaceful protesters.

We had the Commission’s report in June 2024, again in October, in December, and this week with the enlargement report — all showing that the outcome of these actions is that Georgia remains a candidate country only in name,” said Anitta Hipper.

For reference, according to Rustavi 2, EU Ambassador Paweł Herczyński sent a letter on November 5, 2025, to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, informing him that “Georgia’s participation in EU-funded regional programs in the areas of security and organized crime has been suspended.”

According to the same source, Herczyński also wrote:

“Given the specific circumstances in Georgia and in line with the conclusions of the European Council of 27 June 2024 — which resulted in the de facto suspension of Georgia’s EU accession process — we inform you that Georgia’s participation in the following EU-funded regional projects in the fields of security and organized crime is suspended.”