The Georgian people do not need to be directed towards the European path. Georgia is the co-creator of the European civilisation, and, therefore, wherever Georgia is, there is Europe too. Speaker of the Georgian Parliament writes in an open letter, addressed to Paweł Herczyński, the European Union Ambassador to Georgia.

The process of European integration should not mean Brussels’ unilateral assumption of suzerainty over Georgia, but a genuine re-consolidation of our historic ties with the other European nations, as between equals.

Europe Day should also remind us that no ruler of the European Union can simply banish such European ideals as national independence, Christian values, and traditional ways of life, only because they have different ideological inclinations. Those who are entertaining the ‘regime change’ ideas with respect to Georgia’s democratically elected government display complete contradiction with the founding spirit of the European Union. They posit ideologies that are incompatible with human nature, and, while ignoring the differences in traditions, establish the uniformity of ethos.

The idea of the Coal and Steel Community that Robert Schuman proposed on May 9, 1950, had an aim of “contributing to raising living standards and to promoting living achievements”. He understood very well that peace requires a solid economic foundation. The entire European project started from this assumption, after all. However, European leadership seems to have forgotten this very important cornerstone of the foundation of the European Union, too. How else can the attempts to persuade the Georgian government to enter into economic warfare with Russia be explained, without offering any security guarantees or economic solidarity? Had the Georgian government been persuaded, those attempts would have caused not only economic devastation in Georgia but would have also caused a regional turmoil and, thus, left Europe without important energy supplies and geoeconomic access routes”, - reads the open letter of Shalva Papuashvili.