The European Parliament approved this Wednesday one of the strongest-worded documents in the history of enlargement: the progress report on Georgia’s accession process.With 490 votes in favour and 147 against, EU lawmakers deplored “the backsliding of the rule of law as well as the growing Russian influence on the ruling party, Georgian Dream, led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili.” This is the first report on Georgia as an EU candidate country, based on the European Commission’s technical and political assessments from 2023 and 2024.The document adopted in the Strasbourg hemicycle stressed the lack of legitimacy of what it calls “the self-proclaimed authorities established by the…