Protests Erupt After Georgia Scraps Bid To Join EU

Politico Europe reports:

The Georgian government’s decision to suspend its efforts to join the EU has sparked a political crisis in the South Caucasus country, with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets to demand new elections even as police launched a violent crackdown on protesters. An estimated 100,000 protesters formed barricades around the parliament on Saturday night, with fire seen coming from the assembly building.

Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said that police arrested Russian citizens in the demonstrations. On Saturday night, Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili — who has previously accused Georgian Dream of rigging October’s parliamentary elections — insisted the government had “no mandate” to stay in power. The unrest, she said, “is not a revolution, it is stability,” and called for the EU to step in

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