Georgia Parliament overrides veto on regulation concentrating on media, civil society | EUROtoday

Georgia’s ruling celebration on Tuesday overrode the president’s veto to cross a divisive “foreign influence” regulation that critics keep is a replica of Russian laws that has been used to crush civil society and unbiased media.

The Black Sea nation’s future as being in both Moscow’s orbit or that of Western Europe is beneath watch with the passage of the regulation, which might threaten its plans to hitch the European Union.