Episode Details

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Guest: Terje Helland - Norwegian Businessman; Communications Expert; External Advisor at the EN Council

- Overall Assessment of Georgia's Current Political Landscape, Highlighting the Shift to Consolidated Authoritarianism;

- Discussion on the Incremental Consolidation of Power by the Georgian Dream Party and Emergence of a Legal Dictatorship;

- Exploration of Centralized Economic Dependency, Regional Control, and Societal Silence Under the Regime;

- Mechanisms of Control: Captured Institutions, Media Manipulation, Targeted Repression, and Legal Intimidation;

- Analysis of Georgia as Europe's Most Authoritarian Regime and the Use of Disinformation to Frame Critics as Anti-State;

- Western Responses to Anti-Democratic Actions, Suspension of EU Integration, and Georgian Dream's Contradictory EU Rhetoric

- Georgian Dream's Alleged Ties to Russia Since 2012, Anti-EU Laws, and Panic Over EU Candidacy;

- Pro-European Sentiment in Society, Ongoing Protests, Civic Resistance Challenges, and the Need for Unified Opposition with a Post-Regime Plan

- Urgent Messages to Western Leaders on Georgia's Geopolitical Importance, Calls for Action.