Lawmakers are moving to override the country’s president and back contentious new legislation that protesters fear could drag ...
Georgian lawmakers on Tuesday voted to override a presidential veto on the Russia-style "foreign agents" law. The U.S., ...
A Georgian parliament committee has rejected the president’s veto of the "foreign agents" legislation that has sparked ... of ...
Georgia has passed a law mandating that organizations receiving 20% of funding from abroad register as “agents of foreign ...
President Salome Zourabichvili vetoed the legislation on May ... Union officials have warned that adopting the foreign agent law would jeopardize Georgia’s bid for EU membership.
Weeks after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Georgia applied for EU membership and was granted candidate status last year. Brussels has repeatedly warned that if the “foreign agents” ...
Critics say the true goal of the law is to stigmatize opposition and restrict debate ahead of parliamentary elections in ...
Protesters started gathering outside of Georgia's parliament as legislators opened a plenary session to consider overriding ...
A non-governmental organization in Georgia says it is preparing a lawsuit in the country’s constitutional court to challenge ...
The legislation will now be sent back to President Salome Zourabichvili, who will have five days to sign into law. In the ...
On May 28, at 7 p.m ., the ruling Georgian Dream majority overrode the president’s veto on the foreign agents’ law with 66 votes in favor and 0 against. The law was subsequently voted for with 84 ...
Georgia’s parliament on Tuesday overrode the president’s veto of a controversial foreign agent law, despite protests at hom ...