Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/2024(INI)
2023 and 2024 Commission reports on Georgia
Own-initiative report (INI): Parliament’s own position on a topic. It is not binding. · First reading
Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.
Where it stands
Parliament’s position
Parliament adopted the text on 9 July 2025. This is its final position on the matter.
- Referred to committee(done) 23 January 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 4 June 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 13 June 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 9 July 2025
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
9 July 2025 · decision 12
Foreign affairs, Resolution
2023 and 2024 reports on Georgia
Adopted 490 for · 147 against · 49 abstained by a large majority
AI summary:The text condemns the violent repression of protests, demands the release of political prisoners, and calls for new elections under improved conditions.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The resolution now calls for applying Article 422 of the Association Agreement to suspend benefits due to Georgia's breaches. It strengthens language on political prisoners, naming more opposition leaders and condemning their arrests and sentencing. It shifts focus from electoral concerns to civil society repression, merging paragraphs and adding calls for release of activists and repeal of restrictive laws. It changes the stance on Hungary and Slovakia, urging them to lift their veto on sanctions rather than deploring their obstruction. The other changes are formal: renumbering and merging of paragraphs.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The report now more strongly condemns Georgian Dream's actions, adding details on repression, political persecution, and electoral fraud. It expands calls for sanctions against Georgian officials and criticizes EU member states for obstruction. It adds concerns about alignment with Russia, China, and Iran, and calls for stronger EU engagement. It includes new paragraphs on civil society support, media freedom, and human rights, including LGBTI issues. The other changes are formal: updated forwarding list and heading.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Foreign Affairs
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Rasa Juknevičienė (EPP)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Tobias Cremer (S&D), Roberto Vannacci (Patriots), Małgorzata Gosiewska (ECR), Urmas Paet (Renew), Reinier van Lanschot (Greens), Danilo Della Valle (The Left), Hans Neuhoff (ESN)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 9 Jul 2025
AI summary:Parliament's resolution on the 2023 and 2024 Commission reports on Georgia condemns the Georgian government's democratic backsliding, violent repression of protests, and rigged elections, and demands new elections and release of political prisoners.
Tabled for plenary· 13 Jun 2025
AI summary:Parliament's resolution on the 2023 and 2024 Commission reports on Georgia condemns democratic backsliding, the rigged October 2024 elections, and the violent crackdown on protests, and demands new elections and the release of political prisoners.
Committee draft· 31 Mar 2025
AI summary:This draft report on the 2023 and 2024 Commission reports on Georgia condemns democratic backsliding and the suspension of EU integration, and calls for new elections, sanctions, and support for civil society.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 4 steps
9 July 2025
Plenary vote
Sitting of 9 Jul 2025 Report A10-0110/2025Adopted text TA10-0158/2025
8 July 2025
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
1 July – 2 July 2025
22 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
Amendments 1–6Amendment 7Amendments 8–13Amendments 14–15Amendments 16–22
13 June 2025
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps
4 June 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
AFET (Foreign Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
29 April 2025
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of AFET (Foreign Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.
31 March 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in AFET (Foreign Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
23 January 2025
Referred to the AFET (Foreign Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/2024(INI)