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The mistakes of Georgia's president should not be used as a pretext to neglect a pro-Western country. Blinking, yawning and scratching, the European Union is waking up to...

Georgia's prime minister is still better known as the man who brought light to his country. A t 36, Nikoloz Gilauri is one of Georgia's longest-serving ministers and –...

ECB president to present annual report for 2009 and president of Georgia to address MEPs. A law about what information should be given to patients on medicines, an...

Leaders in the South Caucasus need to think regionally – and, to encourage that, the EU should keep a special representantive there. A ripple of alarm has gone through the...

It would be good for Europe if that could now be translated into better relations with Poland. Lithuania thinks big. In the days of the late lamented Grand Duchy, it...

Europe's leaders need to start dictating terms to President Mikheil Saakashvili. If, in 2008, saving Georgia seemed to be the great success of Europe's foreign policy, in...

One year has passed since the conflict between Russia and Georgia and the picture is still foggy. One year after the Georgian war, its outcome is as debatable as the cause....

Five countries sign Nabucco pipeline agreement. Leaders of the five countries through which the planned Nabucco gas pipeline would pass have signed a crucial treaty in...

Mediocrity flourishes in central and eastern European governments and is unlikely to be supplanted by real talent. Political freedom means that rulers tremble when voters...

Tbilisi says its focus is on refugees and presses EU to make clear to Russia that it is not ready for ‘business as usual'. TBILISI, Georgia | Georgia's foreign minister...

Nino Burjanadze, a key figure in the Rose Revolution, sets up a new party, attacks the Georgian president over the conflict with Russia and promises to be a ‘predictable'...

The EU should engage the Caucasus's realist leaders, rather than the romantics. Russia brought together the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan on 2 November in an effort...

Gordon Brown is cosying up to Sarkozy over Russia at the cost of countering Russian mischief-making. After the Russian-Georgian war, Britain stood out as the only big...

Barack Obama has largely succeeded in neutralising John McCain's foreign-policy experience. When he sought to justify his bombardment of South Ossetia, Mikheil Saakashvili,...

Backing down on a partnership deal with Russia would send a dangerous signal to the Kremlin. After Georgia, supposedly, everything was different. Europe had woken up to the...

International donors promise to provide Georgia with more post-war aid than World Bank estimates will be needed. Georgia today secured promises of €3.4 billion in...

EU has already pledged up to €500 million. Georgia expects around €1 billion to be pledged at a donors' conference scheduled to take place in Brussels next week,...

EU foreign ministers' decision to suspend travel bans on figures from various rogue regimes is nothing but baffling. Russia's Georgian adventure this August has heightened...

Russia and Georgia fail to agree on what role South Ossetia and Abkhazia should play in peace talks. Talks on the future of South Ossetia and Abkhazia have broken down...

Georgian president calls for Russia to withdraw to pre-war positions, wants South Ossetians and Abkhazians sidelined in talks. The European Commission's president,...