EU says Georgia's membership path on hold over NGO law

EU leaders say the country's current course of action threatens its acceptance into the bloc.

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They said the law amounted to "backsliding" on Georgia's path to membership, "de facto leading to a halt of the accession process".

Georgia was only granted EU candidate country status last December after being given a list of steps it needed to take to proceed, including justice reform.

EU leaders meeting in Brussels expressed their "steadfast solidarity with the Georgian people" and called on the government in Tbilisi to reverse its "current course of action".

European Union officials have strongly condemned Georgia's new foreign influence law, which was passed amid major anti-government protests and is due to come into effect next month.

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