Georgia’s EU accession halted as country ‘has gone backwards’
A critical progress report on EU accession delivers a blow to the Georgian government, already in crisis over election fraud allegations.
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Georgia signs sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ bill into law
The legislation bans same-sex marriage and changing one’s gender.
Georgian president refuses to sign anti-LGBTQ+ rights bill into law
Salome Zourabichvili opts not to advance bans on same-sex marriages and on adoptions by same-sex couplesGeorgia’s president has refused to sign into law a bill aimed at severely curtailing LGBTQ+ rights, weeks after the controversial legislation was pa…
Romanian PM rejects need to legally protect same-sex couples
Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu has questioned the need to introduce civil partnerships, saying that LGBTI citizens already enjoy equal rights despite the Strasbourg-based human rights court condemning Romania for failing to protect same-sex cou…