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Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

The game of Georgias EU candidate status

On 21 June, the European Commission presented an interim oral report to the member states on Georgia’s progress towards being granted EU candidate status. It was assessed that, of the twelve recommendations given to Tbilisi by Brussels a…
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Between Brussels and Moscow Georgia is moving closer to Russia

… On 19 May air links between Georgia and Russia resumed after a four-year break. This … met with criticism from the West and public protests in Georgia. The resumption of direct air communication is … US policy. However, according to declarations by the Georgian government, the country’s primary objective …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Georgia a strong political crisis over legislative changes

… as ‘foreign agents’. A joint statement by the ruling Georgian Dream party and the People’s Power movement … been strongly criticised as undemocratic by both the Georgian opposition and officials from the EU and the … People’s Power, who are former members of the ruling Georgian Dream party. They were presumably supposed to …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Saakashvili and The Georgian Opposition The State of Play

… health had rapidly deteriorated, and the former Georgian president had been taken to an intensive care … proves that Saakashvili – who retired from active Georgian politics a decade ago and has been in prison … world. If he dies, this would lead to mass protests in Georgia whose outcome would be difficult to predict. …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Competing peace formats Russia and the EUs attitudes towards the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict

… Armenia and Azerbaijan by stepping up its influence in Georgia. The talks and the divergent views Contacts … this sentiment and has been seeking rapprochement with Georgia in order to ‘make up’ for its declining … decree of 10 May which lifted visa requirements for Georgian citizens travelling to Russia and lifting the …
OSW Commentary | | Wojciech Górecki, Krzysztof Strachota

The undeclared war A new phase of the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict

… Azerbaijan to reduce its dependence on transit through Georgia, and on the other, to gain control of transit … dominance in the region while marginalising both Georgia and Armenia. ...while Armenia is playing deep … and containment other than Armenia. In the region, Georgia could play such a role for Russia; the most …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Another war or a deal A new phase in the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict

… duopoly, which already has considerable influence in Georgia (see ‘ The (pan-)Turkic Caucasus. The …
Analyses | | OSW team

Solidarity Ring a step towards increasing Azerbaijani gas supplies to Central Europe

… of Azerbaijan, as well as the prime ministers of Georgia, Hungary and Romania signed a strategic …