Papuashvili Heads to Brussels for Meetings at Belgium’s Legislature

Georgian Dream Parliamentary Speaker Shalva Papuashvili traveled to Brussels on September 22 for an official visit, accompanied by a GD parliamentary delegation. According to a Georgian Parliament press release, Papuashvili is scheduled to hold meetings with the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium’s Federal Parliament.

The delegation includes Nikoloz Samkharadze, Chair of Parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee; Levan Makhashvili, Chair of the European Integration Committee; and Davit Matikashvili, Chair of the Procedural Issues and Rules Committee. The visit comes amid strained relations between Georgia and the European Union over Georgian Dream’s anti-Western rhetoric and concerns over democratic backsliding, and as Georgian ruling party lawmakers have tried to use their visits in European capitals…