So, if you want to become a member of the European Union, you shouldn't be able to say anything? - this is how the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili responds to the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, who explained to a Rustavi 2 journalist that, unlike Georgia, the US is not trying to join the EU.

"This is exactly what the White House calls the 'Estonization' of the EU's foreign policy," Papuashvili wrote on Facebook.

For information, in particular, Kallas responded to a journalist who asked: “The EU has repeatedly stated that Georgia cannot become part of the EU under the rhetoric that it uses towards the European bureaucracy and the EU itself. Similar narratives are also reflected in the US National Security Strategy. What is your response to this, given that Washington’s rhetoric now seems to be in line with these policies? Are you ready to accuse the Trump administration of following a script dictated by the Kremlin, if this reveals a fundamental double standard in your policy towards Georgia?”

“The difference is that the United States is not trying to join the European Union. Of course, what we read in the National Security Strategy is not pleasant to read, but we have adopted the approach that we will not interfere in the internal politics of our allies.

As for Georgia, the main problem is that while on the one hand, Georgia declares that it wants to join the European Union and choose the European path, we see steps taken by the government in the wrong direction. This is a signal to the government that as long as they continue their policy of suppressing the opposition, pressuring free media and other actions that contradict the values ​​of the European Union, Georgia will have no future in the European Union,” said Kaja Kallas.