EU urges Georgia to drop 'foreign influence' law I DW News
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Published 2024-05-15
Thousands of demonstrators have blocked a major traffic junction in the capital Tbilisi.
DW's Maria Katamadze spoke to former Georgian president Giorgi Margvelashvili at the protests.
Critics fear the law will be used to stamp out dissent - and will dent Georgia's hopes of joining the European Union. The legislation requires media and other groups to register as "pursuing the interests of a foreign power" if they get more than 20% of their funding from abroad.
Georgia’s President Salome Zourabichvili has vowed to veto the bill, but the government says it will use its majority to override her and ensure the measure becomes law.
The European Union have criticised the Georgian government's plans, saying the law isn't compatible with EU membership .
The US government has also cautioned against its adoption, warning that Washingon would "fundamentally reassess" ties with Tbilisi if the bill wasn't withdrawn.
00:00 Protests after Georgia's parliament passes foreign influence bill
02:50 DW Brussels correspondent Rosie Burchard on EU reactions
05:59 DW's Maria Katamadze from Tbilisi on the protests
08:52 DW's Maria Katamadze speaks to former Georgian president Giorgi Margvelashvili
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All Comments (21)
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More power to Georgia!
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More power to Georgians to bring democracy to their lovely country!
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Where is Victoria Nuland? Shouldn't she be distributing cookies right now? The Cookie Monster.
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Much support for Georgians. 👋👋 from Italy
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Not sure what’s wrong. I think every country should be transparent about foreign funding/influence in the media. Media should never be influenced or funded by foreign country
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I believe that EU themselves are foreign countries. 😂😂😂
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Euromaidan 2.0 is coming to Georgia soon
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The "No Leader Movement" in Georgia also happened in Hong Kong, Myanmar, and Ukraine. It has nothing to do with "democracy" but everything to do with "global geopolitics". This model can be used across culture and geography aiming at "regime change" for the "alliance" of WWIII.
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Declaring where the media is funded from should be standard, no? Everyone knows media is biased better the people know who at least is talking at them, eh?
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so foreign powers are influencing the country just passed the foreign influence law...... bit ironic?
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All this westerns monopolies, they think they own Georgia 😂😂
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EU literally putting oil into the fire.. to spark even more unrest.
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The only thing missing in this protest is Victoria Nuland, giving cookies....
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How would a law exposing foreign influence help foreign influence dominate the government??
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Foreign agents blatantly doing foreign agent things to the Georgia foreign agent bill.
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2:42 - Is English a 2nd language in Georgia? Or is that sign meant for Western cameras and Western audiences and not for the Georgian government per se?
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If you have to shut people up to get your way? How is this freedom
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They are not banning the “influencer” they are just having them register and be recognized? If the argument against one of future implications or law changes or is it on this law in its own?
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Wait a minute. What's wrong with that?
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So why our governement seem to be happy in creating chaos left and right
