President Mikheil Kavelashvili said the European Union had already announced the suspension of Georgia’s accession process in June, months before Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze’s controversial statement.
“The story broke as if the main reason for the protests was Kobakhidze’s remark about a temporary suspension of negotiations. Even then, we were saying that talk of suspension had come from the EU’s side back in June — but who listened to us? This was an artificially created process that continues to this day,” Kavelashvili told journalists.
He added that the government is not blaming the EU but is “speaking in facts.”
“We blame the European Union for nothing; we are speaking in facts. Our society is intelligent and deserves more. Irakli Kobakhidze said the very next day that as soon as the EU is ready to open negotiations, Georgia is ready too — that’s a fact,” Kavelashvili said.
The President also stressed that the government remains committed to its chosen path and that public perception should be based on fairness and objectivity.
For context, Rustavi 2 published a letter from EU Ambassador Paweł Herczyński, dated November 5, 2025, which indicates that the EU decided to suspend Georgia’s accession process as early as June 27, 2024 — five months before Kobakhidze’s statement on November 28, 2024, that Georgia would not seek to open negotiations until 2028 unless the EU initiated them sooner.
