“What is happening in Georgia, in terms of democratic backsliding, is unprecedented. Over such a short period, we’ve never seen anything like it”. Having recently returned from a two-day visit to Georgia, Nacho Sánchez Amor, coordinator of the S&D group in the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Spanish), makes no secret of his bitterness.
Not so long ago, he says, the country was at the “front of the line” in the race to join the EU. Georgia’s governing bodies are now speaking in a...