Georgia 27th in world, in Europe's top 10 for freedom from gov’t attacks on judicial justice
Georgia ranks 27th in the world, ninth in Europe and in the top three in the post-Soviet space in terms of freedom from government attacks on judicial justice in the latest index by Varieties of Democracy, an institution studying the qualities of governments.
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Georgia ranks 27th in the world, ninth in Europe and in the top three in the post-Soviet space in terms of freedom from government attacks on judicial justice in the latest index by Varieties of Democracy, an institution studying the qualities of governments.
In the ranking, Georgia is ahead of 21 European Union states and all membership candidate countries.
The country has improved its position by 69 places since 2012.
The index comes from the organisation based at the department of political science at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
The project for the ranking is led by investigators, project managers, regional managers, over 134 coordinators and about 4,000 experts worldwide.
Georgian Deputy Finance Minister Mirza Gelashvili on Wednesday said the international agency Moody's expected the country's fiscal stability to be “firmly maintained”, ensuring the maintenance of a low level of government debt and its downward trend.
Vakhtang Tsintsadze, the Deputy Economy Minister of Georgia, on Wednesday credited the economic policies of the Government with the international agency Moody's raising of the country’s credit rating.
Merab Turava, the Chair of the Constitutional Court of Georgia, on Monday said reflection of all judicial recommendations issued by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe towards the country’s authorities required “time and consensus” among domestic political actors.
The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe is once again ready to support Georgia “in every possible way” on the path towards the European Union, Michael Frendo, the Vice-President and the head of a visiting delegation of the Commission, said on Thursday at the press conference.