"NATO and the European Union have deserted Georgia" - an article under this title was published in The Washington Post. The article says that the issue of granting MAP to Georgia in Warsaw, at the NATO summit will not be considered.

The author, citing an unnamed source, says that NATO enlargement talkswill be held in December, but the issue of giving MAP to Georgia has not been resolved by this time.

The article says that, unlike NATO, Georgia had predictable relations with the European Union, that Georgia has complied with all the requirements; nevertheless, France, Germany and Italy have suspended the process of granting visa free travel.

The author reports that the German side names internal political conflict. Moreover,Germany claims that Georgian Dream, the governing coalition that is rife with internal feuds, hasn’t done enough to stop mafia and criminal gangs from entering Europe, even alleging that the groups carried out the most burglaries in Germany. German police authorities have rebutted such allegations.

The author cites Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, a Polish deputy who belongs to the same conservative grouping in the European Parliament as Brok, is staunchly against giving Georgia a visa-free regime. “Georgian Dream party is trampling on fundamental rights,” he said.

Saryusz-Wolski added that the media were coming under huge pressure from Georgian Dream to toe the government line. It had taken over the Rustavi-2 television station that had been associated with the opposition United National Movement, led by former president Mikheil Saakashvili. Indeed, many analysts argue that since taking power in 2012, Georgian Dream has has waged a vendetta against former UNM ministers.

“The European Commission is closing its eyes to all these things,” Saryusz-Wolski said.