Author Archives: European Socialists

📍 Discussion continues in the Parliament on "Amending the Law of Georgia on the 2022 State Budget of Georgia".
🔹 Members of the parliamentary political group "European Socialists" met with the First Deputy Minister of Finance, Giorgi Kakauridze. The first deputy minister introduced the main changes to the main financial document to the deputies and talked about economic trends.
🔹 "Taking into account the existing trends, we changed the annual forecasts. The rate of economic growth will be higher than initially planned – 8.5%, and we also have additional revenues, which we distribute in two directions. The first and most important thing is to reduce the budget deficit and debt. The planned debt collection is reduced by approximately 700 million GEL. The second direction is the financing of the necessary expenses, which the country has undertaken as an obligation. This is the direction of children's social protection, employment of the socially vulnerable, development of agriculture, infrastructure, provision of social guarantees for policemen and soldiers, and those infrastructure projects that are important for the well-being of our population in various municipalities," said Giorgi Kakauridze.
🔹 According to Fridon Injia, "European Socialists" supports the planned changes in the state budget, as tax revenues of the combined budget increase by 1,266.0 million GEL.
🔹 "This is quite a large amount and the budget increase is welcome. However, how this additional income is distributed is important. There may be some questions in this direction. When distributing the money, first of all, the needs that appeared this year should be taken into account," said the chairman of the parliamentary political group.

📍 Fridon Injia presented the legislative initiative of the "European Socialists" political group on simplifying the procedures for obtaining Georgian citizenship to the Human Rights Protection Committee for consideration.

🔹 At the meeting of the Human Rights Protection and Civil Integration Committee, the head of the political group "European Socialists" Fridon Injia presented a draft of amendments to the Organic Law "On Citizenship", which aims to simplify the procedures for obtaining Georgian citizenship for people who left Georgia for various reasons and their children.

🔹 As Fridon Injia stated during the presentation of the project, the main essence of the mentioned changes is to simplify the procedures for granting citizenship to those persons and also their children who had to leave the country and move to live in another state due to a number of circumstances – economic, political or war conditions.

🔹 "It is necessary to have reservations in the law that will make it easier for people who want to return to their historical roots to get citizenship, so that there are no restrictions and barriers for them, such as testing in the state language, the history of Georgia and the basics of law. Examples of this are Israel, Greece... the implementation of such a policy by the state will contribute to the strengthening of the country", said Fridon Injia.

🔹 As one of the initiators of the mentioned changes, Avtandil Enukidze, the vice-speaker of the Parliament, said at the meeting of the committee, the task and spirit of these changes is to attract Georgians to return to their homeland.

🔹 "He was born Georgian, and no matter where he was born, he is Georgian... He does not know the language, if you do not let him in, he will never learn the language," said Avtandil Enukidze.
Some of the members of the Human Rights Protection and Civil Integration Committee supported the idea and spirit of the bill.