These days the Georgian parliament approved by 84 votes to 30 – on third reading – a law that obliges non-governmental organizations and media outlets that receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as organizations promoting the interests of a foreign power. There is a fine for failing to register.
This law serves to highlight a phenomenon that is unacceptable for any democracy, namely that associations lavishly financed from abroad can present us as an expression of civil society and at the same time operate on behalf of third parties to modify or subvert the situation of the country. Therefore, in my opinion, it is not a question of such a bizarre law, especially in a country like Georgia which out of just over 3 million inhabitants sees the presence of as many as 25,000 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) of which the 90% receives funding from abroad… Yet theEuropean Union has taken a stand through numerous of its exponents against this law which is branded as “Russian”.
For example, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell in a statement co-signed with the European Commission, said that the legislation is contrary to Georgia’s EU membership ambitions and should be eliminated in its entirety. “The adoption of this law has a negative impact on Georgia’s path towards the EU. The choice of the path to follow is in Georgia’s hands – we read in the note – We urge the Georgian authorities to withdraw the law, to maintain their commitment to the path of EU accession and to carry out the necessary reforms”.
There were various popular demonstrations against the adoption of this law which culminated in the assault on the Georgian parliament which was also the subject of Molotov cocktails being thrown. Foreign ministers also joined these demonstrations yesterday Estonia, Lithuania and Iceland, resulting in the modification of the choreography, with the inclusion of the European anthem in the events. In practice, foreign ministers of some European states are participating in demonstrations against the legitimate Parliament of Georgia because this wants to make foreign financing transparent that reach the country’s non-governmental organizations…
The story may appear surreal because it is completely clear that the choice of the Georgian Parliament to make public the foreign funding of the numerous NGOs present and operating in Georgia is not only completely legitimate but it follows laws present in many countries, including one approved by the United States of America way back in 1938…
The story appears less surreal if we remember 2014: in Ukraine, in Kiev, in the wake of a movement very similar to the Georgian one, a coup d’état took place which removed the legitimately elected president and replaced him with a well-liked figure in NATO and US circles. We see the outcome of that coup today in the war of Donbass.
However, two differences are significant with Ukraine ten years ago. The first is that there is no Nazi party in Georgia like Pravyj Sector which took part in the armed assault on Parliament in Kiev. The second is that certain operations succeed once but then have difficulty repeating themselves: people wake up… In the 60s and 70s, coups d’état were used to subvert democracies. Then they became unpopular and were replaced by white coups carried out by the judiciary: this is how I read “operation lava jato” (car wash operation) in Brazil which was the basis of the dismissal of the legitimate president of Brazil Dilma Rousseff and the arrest – before he was re-elected with the popular face – of the president Lula.
The latest discovery of the Western potentates were the colored revolutions – largely financed from abroad – of which Ukraine represented the most successful case. In Georgia the majority of the population has realized that those who attack Parliament to prevent a law from making foreign funding to various organizations transparent perhaps have something to hide…
I am talking about this Georgian situation because the European Union has taken a position against this law and has threatened Georgia not to continue on the path to entry into the Union, but has not taken a formal position against the law in question. To do so he would have had to gather the consensus of all European leaders, including that one Robert Fico, Slovakia’s prime minister who was shot on Wednesday evening by a true pro-Western liberal, his political opponent. The leaders of the European Union knew that they would not have Fico’s consensus and for this reason they are putting pressure – with revolts – on the Georgian parliament.
It is quite impressive that a country is threatened with not being welcomed into the European Union because it demands to know whether the organizations present on its territory are financed from abroad. It does enough impression that a leader of a European country is shot because he does not kneel before NATO. It makes just as much of an impression Chef Rubio be attacked by a fascist gang because of his denunciation of the genocide that the state of Israel has been carrying out for months against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
One, two, three, too many oddities. One, two, three, too much distance between the news on the news and reality. One, two, three things that tell us about a foul stench of the regime, of which not only Meloni is part but the complex of the Italian and European ruling classes. To get rid of as soon as possible.
