Eurasia “at forefront” of assault on individual freedoms.
The Middle Corridor linking China to Europe through the South Caucasus and Central Asia has expanded significantly in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but its long-term prospects remain uncertain.
Osman Hamdi Bey’s 1881 work Kahve Hazirlamak was bought by a Georgian prince around 1910. Its whereabouts became a mystery.
Playing long game for rare earths.
European Policy Centre analysts call on the EU to abandon its piecemeal, hesitant approach to enlargement and commit to ‘permachange’: a permanent state of adaptation in response to cascading crises.
Wider region increasingly seen as arena in which major powers’ interests, such as in sourcing critical minerals, collide and converge.
The EU has toyed with the idea of suspending visa-free travel privileges for Georgians in light of Georgian Dream's increasing authoritarianism and pivot away from European values.
Vashadze regards the incumbent Georgian Dream government as a “double-faced” Kremlin agent: ostensibly committed to Western integration, but in reality deliberately sabotaging Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic future in favour of closer ties with Russia.