Our wish for other countries` governments is that they follow Georgia`s example: listen to their citizens and act in their own national interests, rather than serving illusory, globalist, supranational goals. Such a statement made today Speaker of the Georgian Parliament.

"We, as a nation, are concluding this year on a victorious note, marked by unprecedented economic growth for the region. For the first time in Georgia`s history, the gross domestic product per capita will surpass ten thousand dollars. Additionally, our economy will exceed GEL 100 billion for the first time. In this regard, we stand out both through our annual economic growth figures and absolute results, both regionally and in comparison with candidate countries.

Everything was done to undermine Georgia`s economy, to undermine Georgia`s security and peace, to undermine democracy in Georgia. It`s a difficult period in the world. Unfortunately, friends are hard to find. For some reason, in this difficult situation, many have taken the opportunity to pursue a hostile policy towards Georgia, and we are engaged in overcoming our problems, which involves the challenges of occupation and the goal of ending occupation. On top of this, they add incitement towards aggravation, towards escalation, towards discord, towards everything that is the antonym of Europeanness, and they do this with the EU flag in hand.

We are witnessing a growing trend, including the rise of patriotic forces across Europe, and we are confident that the minority governments currently pursuing their political agendas will listen to their own people. The wall of deafness between EU leadership, European bureaucrats, and the European peoples will eventually collapse.

Brussels bureaucracy will follow its people’s desire for Europe to once again be a space of peace and not a space of accelerated armament and preparation for the Third World War, for Europe to be a space of economic prosperity and not a space of economic decline, and for Europe to be a space founded on genuine European values and not a space for spreading invented ideologies within its own space and imposing them on other countries.

With these pre-New Year wishes, we enter the coming year, once again mobilised, relying on our country`s interests. What the Georgian people have known from their centuries-old history and what people now see is that national interest is the starting point for any decision.

This is how nations are built, how states are formed, and how unions will come into being when they are founded on national interests. I hope that every government listens to its own people. Our wish for other countries` governments is that they follow Georgia`s example: listen to their citizens and act in their own national interests, rather than serving illusory, globalist, supranational goals that ultimately prove to be mere chimaeras, as easily altered by their architects as their geopolitical or political ambitions", - said Shalva Papuashvili.