Georgia's president has vetoed a divisive "foreign agent" law that has sparked weeks of mass street protests. On Tuesday MPs passed the controversial law which requires NGOs and independent media ...
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has vetoed the controversial law on foreign agents. However, the Georgian parliament ...
The West has hit out at the law as Kremlin-inspired and authoritarian, with protesters calling for it to be dropped ...
Critics say the bill will restrict media freedom and obstruct Georgia’s chances of joining the European Union.
The ruling Georgian Dream party has for weeks tried to force through the “foreign agent” law, likened by critics to a measure ...
Weeks after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Georgia applied for EU membership and was granted candidate status last year. Brussels has repeatedly warned that if the “foreign agents” ...
In a final vote on May 29, the Georgian parliament overrode the president's veto and passed the controversial new law that ...
TBILISI — The Georgian government’s plans to brand Western-funded NGOs, media outlets and campaign groups as “foreign agents” were rejected by the country’s president on Saturday, but the ruling party ...
President Salome Zourabichvili had earlier told DW that she would reject the contentious legislation as a "symbol." The veto, however, can be overridden by another vote in parliament. https://p.dw ...