Four months have passed since the violent assault on Georgia’s Presidential Palace. During this time, one thing has become clear - Brussels will neither condemn nor distance itself from the attack on the Presidential Palace, Georgia’s Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili writes on social media.

As Papuashvili notes, “Why should Brussels distance itself from something that, just a few days earlier, it effectively expressed support for through its own press spokesperson?”

“Today is February 4.

Four months have passed since the violent assault on Georgia’s Presidential Palace. During this time, one thing has already become clear - Brussels will neither condemn nor distance itself from the attack on the Presidential Palace.

And indeed, why should Brussels distance itself from something that it had, just a few days earlier, effectively supported through its own press spokesperson?

Moreover, today we see attempts to portray the attack on the Presidential Palace - which resulted in the hospitalization of more than twenty police officers - as a ‘fence incident,’ carried out by an organization involved in a fake Estonian registration scheme and lavishly funded from the EU budget.

This is no longer silence. This is a position.

A position that clearly shows that Brussels is increasingly distancing itself from the values on which the European Union once stood, and is increasingly identifying itself with hatred, violence, and extremism.

If Brussels does not radically change its course, the European Union will remain European only in name - ideologically empty, valueless, and hollow,” Papuashvili writes.