Brussels – Tbilisi is in a similar situation to shrimp. Georgia seems to be making repeated backward steps on its path to EU membership, which has been virtually on hold for months because Brussels is concerned about the state of democracy, civil rights and the rule of law. Now the latest addition to the list of problematic decisions in the Caucasus country is a law on family values, which, according to high-ranking EU officials, seriously endangers minorities.
In a note on the website of the European External Action Service (EAD) regretted the Adoption by the Georgian Parliament the Legislative package on “family values and child protection”The new rules, which were approved by MEPs in second reading on Wednesday (4 September), change Article 30 of the Constitution by inserting a reference to several topics such as Wedding, Assumption, And Care of childrenmedical interventions related to Gender identitythe recognition of gender in documents and the use of gender-specific terms in official communication and in the media. In essence, Georgia now only recognizes as a family – and as such protects the union of a man (“biologically male”) and a woman (“biologically female”).
The new law “undermines fundamental rights the Georgian population and risks further stigmatization and discrimination against a part of the population,” says the EEAS statement, which states that “legislation with important implications for the path to EU integration approved without adequate public consultation and without a thorough analysis of its compliance with European and international standards.” The service, which reports to the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, stresses that “ensuring and Protection of human rights is the core of the Expansion process“Georgia’s accession process has de facto come to a standstill,” and calls on the authorities to once again embark on the path of integration into the EU.
With the adoption of the new legislation, the South Caucasus country moves even further away from the prospect of accession to the bloc of twenty-seven, thereby extending the list of measures incompatible with European standards, especially with regard to the preservation of democracy and the rule of law. notorious Law on “foreign agents”which brought tens of thousands of protesters onto the streets a few months ago and led the European Council to judge Tbilisi's path to EU membership as “de facto halted”, to the prospect of Ban on opposition parties after the elections planned for next month: An abrupt setback for the now distant goal of becoming the first candidate country to join the Union by 2030.
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