Georgia’s ruling party seeks to impeach president over EU visits

Salome Zourabichvili speaks during a plenary session at the EU parliament in Brussels. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters

Georgia’s ruling party is seeking to impeach the president over her visits to the EU, which it said were made against the will of the government, the local news agency Interpress has reported.

Salome Zourabichvili met the German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in Berlin on Thursday and the European Council president, Charles Michel, in Brussels on Friday to drum up support for Georgia’s campaign to receive EU candidate status.