The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) provides a framework through which the EU can offer assistance and encourage political, economic and social reforms in its neighbours, both old and new. These reforms are intended to enhance democracy in the ta

In November 2006 the European Commission’s (EC) Georgia Cooperation Council adopted a new document to guide EU-Georgia relations: A European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Action Plan (AP). Recognition as a European Neighbour offers a number of pot

Food safety in itself is important but it also has wider significance beyond the immediate khinkali dripping juice onto your lap. Issues involving food security, agriculture policy, import substitution, export markets and free trade are implicitly ti

Georgia is among the countries lagging in development. Economic advancement and production have not yet even caught up to the levels they stood at 15 years ago. Poverty is omnipresent and unemployment rampant. Official statistics indicate the unemplo

When evaluating the performance of any country or government on its promises of liberal and democratic reform, it is important to first assess how power and authority are divided in the given country and how we can qualify it in terms of regime. Only

This paper offers a brief overview of competition law in Georgia. Apart from the fact that “competition is the basic organising principle of our economic system,” the importance of an examination of competition practices is underlined bec

Since the “Rose Revolution” one of the most significant changes in the fiscal field has been the continued expansion of the Georgian state budget. This has undeniably shown the increase of the state’s capacity, in this case illustra

Citizens have little information about the activities of parliament Tbilisi, Georgia – Transparency International Georgia (TI Georgia) published the results of a public opinion survey on the Georgian parliament that was conducted by the Caucasus

Citizens have little information about the activities of parliament FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 20 May 2008 Tbilisi, Georgia – Transparency International Georgia (TI Georgia) published the results of a public opinion survey on the Georgian parliame

In March and April of 2006, within the frameworks of the Majoritarian Project financed by the British Embassy, Transparency International Georgia together with majoritarian MPs of the Parliament of Georgia conducted meetings in their respective dis