The irresponsible policies of EU leaders have brought Europe to the brink of a civilizational abyss - the problems that we have been pointing out to Brussels for a long time are now being discussed by America - this is how the Speaker of the Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, responded to the interview given by US President Donald Trump to POLITICO on social media.

As Papuashvili notes, the EU will no longer be able to ignore these processes and will have to reconsider its current approaches.

“It is important that the problems that we have been pointing out to Brussels for a long time are now being addressed by the EU’s main partner and main security guarantor, America. This is no longer just a warning from the Georgian government, it is an alarm bell sounded from within the West, which is waking up Europe to resolve the increasingly growing, systemic and deep political crisis.

The irresponsible policy of the EU leaders has brought Europe to the brink of a civilizational abyss, where economic stability is being lost, cultural identity is being destroyed, and the value basis of the European idea is being questioned.

The EU can no longer ignore these processes. Clear political decisions and revision of existing approaches are necessary,” Papuashvili writes.