Georgia's outgoing president urges EU to use more leverage to back protesters

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Georgia's outgoing president urges EU to use more leverage to back protesters
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Georgia’s outgoing president wants the European Union to press her country’s pro-Russia government to hold a new election. The call by President Salome Zourabichvili on Wednesday came amid a police crackdown on peaceful opposition protesters.

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“Europe needs to find the leverage to act. If Europe cannot exert leverage on a country of 3.7 million, how can it expect to compete with the giants of the 21st century?” Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili told EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France. Zourabichvili suggested that this wasn’t enough, and she urged the world’s biggest trading bloc to use its weight as Georgia’s biggest donor, biggest economic market and home to the South Caucasus country’s biggest diaspora.

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