The EU is ready to deprive Georgia of funding and supplies through the European Peace Foundation if the law on foreign agents is not repealed, the Union's High Representative Josep Borrel said.
Speaking before a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg, European diplomacy chief Josep Borrel said that Georgia still has a chance for European integration.
"The road for the peoples of Georgia is open to the EU. However, if the government continues to do what it is doing, this road will be closed and the Georgian people will pay for the consequences [...] Today EU countries are not making any concrete decisions, it is a discussion about the situation and possible measures," Interpressnews quoted him as saying.
Borrel also promised to present at the meeting the EU's short and medium-term plans to counter the Georgian government's course. In particular, European officials want to cut off high-level political contacts with Georgia and financial support provided through the European Peace Foundation.
Earlier, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili said that at meetings with European leaders at the summit in Switzerland, she was asked how the country was going to become part of the European Union if it adopts the "Russian law" on "foreign agents" and does not implement any reforms that were in the EU recommendations.
At the same time, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced in mid-June that the adoption of the law on "foreign agents" allegedly brought Georgia closer to EU membership.
