Political change is imminent in Brussels. What we have been saying about Brussels’ values backsliding is now affirmed, vindicated, and amplified by the United States, the main guarantor of the European Union’s stability and security, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament writes on X.

“Political change is imminent in Brussels.

What we have been saying about Brussels’ values backsliding is now affirmed, vindicated, and amplified by the United States – the main guarantor of the European Union’s stability and security. Indeed, without a dramatic political change, EU is likely to succumb to the ‘civilizational erasure’, as stated in the latest US Security Strategy document.

This civilizational abyss is, primarily, about the core European values that the EU bureaucracy chose to ignore. Nowhere is this neglect of values more visible, blatant, and damaging as in EU’s approach to Georgia in the last few years. Support for violence, attempts at ‘regime change’, disregard for national sovereignty, choice of foreign funded NGOs over the will of the Georgian people, preference of conflict over peace and stability, irreverence to the majority rule in favor of a diktat by political minority have been the trademarks of EU’s damaging approach to Georgia.

The irresponsible policy of EU’s current leadership led the Union to a deep, ever growing, and systematic crisis, causing unprecedented weakness in the standing of the European Union in global geopolitics. Brussels has become virtually isolated in its ideologically driven foreign policy, now further tarnished with the gigantic corruption scandal in Ukraine.

Suppressed free speech in the name of freedom of expression confused not only large parts of Europe’s population but the rest of the world as well. The reduced growth numbers of European economies led to the public disillusionment with national governments. Most importantly, EU bureaucracy’s myopic stance on European values brought about the crisis in Europe’s cultural identity, nurturing an ever-growing preference for traditionalistic and patriotic political forces to take over national governments.

Unfortunately, Brussels’ response to the crisis seems to be denial, not action. The most recent statement by the EU’s High Representative for foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas shows clearly that European Union does not fully realize the extent of its civilizational crisis, risking to remain European in name only.

Europe must now realize to whom the bell tolls as the United States alerted, more than loudly, the peoples of Europe about the abyss ahead. As it is obvious that the current European leadership has gone astray from the interests of people of Europe, now they should get back to their duty of reflecting the will of the people, thus returning the spirit of democracy to EU.

We care about the Europe whole and free and at peace – not divided, contorted, and at war with itself”, - writes Shalva Papuashvili.