Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili voiced optimism on EU help for his country's resistance to Russian "imperialism" in a speech in Strasbourg on Tuesday (14 November), but EU inertia could see Tbilisi's independence snuffed out by 2010 analysts say.
"I am aware of a powerful trend - that Georgia is on the [European] agenda," the president stated after EU leaders raised Georgia with Russia at a bilateral summit in October and the European Parliament passed a pro-Georgia resolution. ...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.