New Europe: "Georgia’s dream: Europeanization as democratic consolidation"

The Georgian Parliament Speaker Davit Usupashvili discussed political processes, fair elections, cohabitation and Georgias aspirations to be aligned with Europe in his article, published on January 13 on the website of the newspaper New Europe.

"Georgians broadly agree that a commitment to the West has been crucial for the process of democratization, writes Georgian Parliament Speaker Davit Usupashvili in his article.|/

"We must go from fierce interpersonal rivalry and consensus politics to substantive political rivalry based on fundamental interpersonal respect. Usupashvili wrote.

He believed the Association Agreement and Visa liberalization with the EU would make this process of substantive Europeanization irreversible.

In the epilogue, Usupashvili mentioned that the Georgian society might have defeated Homo Sovieticus, however it was more the most important to create authentic and meaningful Georgian citizenship, and the only role model we have for this project is European citizenship.

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