Shalva Papuashvili: Georgia outpaces all EU member and candidate countries in economic growth rate, several times over; this is the advantage of independence and we must never give it up

Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili states that Georgia outpaces every member and candidate country of the European Union in terms of economic growth rates, "several times over". According to him, the importance of independence lies not only in Georgia being marked on the map under its own name, but its main value is that "we can conduct policy without external interference and based on national interests, which brings concrete benefit to the people.