{"id":53689,"date":"2024-06-25T02:02:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T16:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=53689"},"modified":"2024-06-25T02:02:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T16:02:33","slug":"eu-top-diplomat-warns-georgia-door-to-membership-could-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=53689","title":{"rendered":"EU top diplomat warns Georgia door to membership could &#8216;close&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell told Georgia Monday that its push to join the bloc could be ended, as Brussels weighs options to punish the authorities over a &#8220;foreign influence&#8221; law.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The door for Georgia to become a member of the European Union is open,&#8221; Borrell said at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But if the government continues on the same track, continues doing what they are doing, this door will be closed, and the Georgian people will pay the consequences, will suffer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ruling party in the South Caucasus country &#8212; which formally became a candidate to join the EU last year &#8212; adopted a controversial &#8220;foreign influence&#8221; law this month that critics say is modelled on Russian legislation used to stifle dissent.<\/p>\n<p>The move was condemned by Georgia&#8217;s Western supporters, with the United States banning several officials from the South Caucasus nation from visiting.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns were further fuelled by proposed new legislation to ban what the ruling party calls &#8220;LGBT propaganda&#8221;, in another conservative shift that drew fresh comparisons with repressive Russian laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell told Georgia Monday that its push to join the bloc could be ended, as Brussels weighs options to punish the authorities over a &#8220;foreign influence&#8221; law. &#8220;The door for Georgia to become a member of the European Union is open,&#8221; Borrell said at a meeting of EU foreign ministers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1814],"class_list":["post-53689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-eu-top-diplomat-warns-georgia-door-to-membership-could-close"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}