The General Directorate of the European Commission for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR) published information on EU support to Georgia on Monday.
The Directorate General said the numbers were being published following adoption of the controversial law on transparency of foreign influence, which requires registration of non-commercial legal entities and media outlets in the country as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they derive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad.
"We respond to the misinterpretation of the EU's support to Georgia. It is important to clarify it in the context of the law on foreign agents. Compared to the civil society, the ministries of Georgia were allocated 10 times more money," the General Directorate of the European Commission wrote.
According to the General Directorate of the European Commission, the following agencies received EU assistance in 2019-2024:
111.55 million EUR - Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure/Local Authorities;
101.40 million EUR - Ministry of Finance;
62.75 million EUR - Ministry of Defense;
57 million EUR - Ministry of Environment and Agriculture;
30.5 million EUR - Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development;
25.07 million EUR - Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Protection of IDPs from Occupied Territories;
19 million EUR - Government Commission on Migration Issues;
12.85 million EUR - Ministry of Education, Science and Youth;
10.5 million EUR - Ministry of Internal Affairs;
7.4 million EUR - government administration;
4.8 million EUR - Parliament of Georgia;
Between 2019-2024, public administrations received 517.8 million EUR in aid from the European Union, including 75 million EUR in the form of loans during the Covid-pandemic. Civil society received 46.1 million EUR and the private sector received 6.1 million EUR.
