{"id":390657,"date":"2024-09-18T11:34:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T09:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/09\/18\/georgia-legge-diritti-lgbtq-borrell-ue\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T12:27:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T10:27:49","slug":"in-georgia-parliament-has-approved-the-clampdown-on-lgbtq-rights-borrell-moving-further-and-further-away-from-eu-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/09\/18\/in-georgia-parliament-has-approved-the-clampdown-on-lgbtq-rights-borrell-moving-further-and-further-away-from-eu-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"In Georgia, parliament has approved the clampdown on LGBTQ rights. Borrell: “Moving further and further away from EU membership”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – With the final approval of the law<\/a> on “family values and child protection,” Georgia is “moving further away” from its path to the European Union,<\/strong>\u00a0as the measure that undermines the rights of the LGBTQ community is the latest in a series of clampdowns announced by Tbilisi on the rule of law: from the ‘foreign agents’ law to threats to ban opposition parties after elections scheduled for October 26. In a note, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell<\/strong>, called on the government led by\u00a0Giorgi Kobakhidze and President Salom\u00e9 Zourabichvili, in particular, to withdraw the law.<\/p>\n

According to Borrell, the law “will undermine the fundamental rights of the people and increase discrimination and stigma.” The new regulations amend Article 30 of the Georgian Constitution, <\/strong>adding references to various issues such as marriage<\/strong>, adoption,<\/strong> fostering of children<\/strong>, medical interventions related to gender identity<\/strong>, gender recognition in documents, and using gender-related terms in official communiqu\u00e9s and the media sphere. More importantly, the law sanctions\u00a0the recognition as a family<\/a> – and its protection – only in the union of a man<\/strong> (“biologically male”) and a woman<\/strong> (“biologically female”).<\/p>\n

With the adoption of the new legislation, therefore, the South Caucasus country moves even further away from the prospect of accession<\/strong> to the Twenty-seven bloc, lengthening the list of measures that are incompatible with European standards with regard, above all, to the maintenance of democracy and the rule of law. Already following the adoption of the pro-Russian-inspired law on ‘transparency of foreign influence,’<\/strong> which stipulates that all organizations that receive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad should register as an ‘organization pursuing the interests of a foreign power,’ the European Council effectively froze<\/a> Georgia’s path to EU membership.<\/p>\n

In the same way as\u00a0what happened<\/a> last spring over the law on foreign agents, the pro-European president Zourabichvili seems intent on rejecting the law<\/strong>. But the government led by the Georgian Dream party is not worried because it has an overwhelming majority in Parliament that would allow it to circumvent the president’s veto and\u00a0thus\u00a0enact the law before the election date, which will be decisive at this point in charting Tbilisi’s path to the EU.<\/p>\n

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The Georgian Parliament adopted laws on \u2018family values and protection of minors\u2019 which will undermine the fundamental rights of the people and increase discrimination & stigmatisation.
\nI call on Georgia to withdraw this legislation, further derailing the country from its EU path.<\/p>\n

– Josep Borrell Fontelles (@JosepBorrellF) September 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Law on “Family Values and Child Protection,” which enshrines the recognition of only the natural family consisting of a man and a woman, passed in the third reading. EU calls on Tbilisi to withdraw it, but parliament has the numbers to circumvent a possible veto by President Zourabichvili<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":350262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[25968,28020,27451,25792,26044],"class_list":["post-390657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-eu-accession","tag-adesione-ue-2-en","tag-georgia-and","tag-josep-borrell-en","tag-diritti-lgbtq-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390670,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390657\/revisions\/390670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}