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Summer School II for youth politicians from Eastern Europe
Between August 18-22, the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation arranged this years second Summer School, an ideology conference for young politicians. Young politicians from four of the countries in the EU:s...
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Shift of power in Georgia after parliamentary election
When the election results were presented earlier today, they showed that the governing party United National Movement (UNM), led by President Mikheil Saakashvili had been defeated by Bidzina...
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Georgia after the Election
October 1, parliamentary elections were held in Georgia. The Swedish moderate MP:s Elisabeth Björnsdotter Rahm and Margareta Cederfelt analyse an aggressive election campaign and an uncertain future...
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Youth from Georgian UNM gathered at conference after election defeat
Barely a month after the parliamentary elections defeat of the Georgian party, United National Movement (UNM), around 20 members from the youth organization gathered in the Georgian capital Tbilisi for...
View ArticleEPP Critical Towards Violence in Georgia
The President of the European People’s Party (EPP), Wilfried Martens, and the Vice President of the EPP and Chairman of the EPP Group in Euronest, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, made a critical statement...
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Spring School with youth politicians from Eastern Europe
May 3-6, the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation arranged this year’s Spring School, a conference on ideology with young politicians from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Belarus and Sweden. The conference was...
View ArticleOpposition Leaders Arrested in Georgia
The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday that they have arrested two leading politicians from the opposition, UNM’s General Secretary Ivane Merabishvili, who in 2012 was the country’s Prime...
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EPP Condemns the Arrests in Georgia
Wilfred Martens, President of the EPP Wilfried Martens, President of the European People’s Party (EPP) sharply criticizes the Georgian government after the arrests of two leading opposition...
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What is happening in Georgia?
The two arrested politicians from the the main opposition party, United National Movement (UNM), is the General Secretary Ivane Merabishvili, who served as Prime Minister in the former government and...
View ArticleOpinion Poll from Georgia
International Republican Institute’s latest poll of Georgian public opinion shows that over 60 percent of respondents fully support Georgia joining NATO. The survey further shows attitudes regarding...
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Georgian local politicians learn about electoral processes
In 2012, United National Movement (UNM), the party that Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation works with in Georgia lost the parliamentary elections. At the moment, UNM is in the middle of a transformation...
View ArticleDiscussions on Georgia in Stockholm
29 April, 201412:00till13:00April 29, the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation hosted a luncheon in Stockholm on the political developments in Georgia and the future for European integration. David Bakradze,...
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Winter School on the Principles for a Free Society
Participants from the Balkans during the JHS Winter School 2014 November 11-18, the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation organised two conferences on ideology for political active youth from the Eastern...
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Conference on ideology and policy making for youth politicians in Georgia
Participants during the first conference in Bazaleti On January 21-22 and 23-24, the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation hosted two conferences in Georgia for political active youth from the Foundation’s...
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UNM Women gathered in Kachreti
Khatuna Gogorishvili at conference with UNM Women. On 26-27 February, female politicians from the Georgian opposition party, United National Movement (UNM) met in order to discuss how women could gain...
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Women’s organisation meeting in Georgia
Women’s organisation meeting in Sighnaghi July 2-3 and 4-5, the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation invited women representatives from its co-operation organisation United National Movement (UNM) to two...
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Georgian female politicians at conference
Khatuna Gogorishvili chaired the conferences. On 14-17 July, 2015, Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation, in co-operation with International Republican Institute (IRI), organized two conferences with local female...
View ArticleThe Georgian Government refuses to comply with the ruling of the...
United National Movement, Georgia’s main opposition party, has published a statement on the Government’s refusal to comply with the ruling of the Constitutional Court to release the former Mayor of...
View ArticleGeorgian opposition leader Gigi Ugulava jailed after 23 hours of freedom
The former mayor of Tbilisi Gigi Ugulava was released following Georgian Constitutional Court declaring his prolonged pre-trial detention as anti-constitutional and illegal. Less than 24 hours later he...
View ArticleUNM activists sentenced to pre-trial detention, the Parliamentary Assembly of...
UNM Activists Sentenced to Pre-trial Detention as PACE Slams Georgia for Abusing the Practice 05.10.2014 Three UNM activists were sentenced to two-months of pre-trial detention in the western Georgian...
View ArticleGeorgian Dream tightens its grip on Georgia’s largest independent TV-channel
Tbilisi’s city court’s controversial judge Tamaz Urtmelidze dismissed last night the management of Georgia’s largest independent TV-channel Rustavi2. The controversial judicial decision came as a...
View ArticleGeorgia’s Democratic Backsliding
A summary of the political situation in Georgia has been published in the International Democrat Union forum. It describes continued political prosecutions, attempts to take over independent media,...
View ArticleInvitation: Seminar on the developments in Georgia
27 January, 201612:00till13:00Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation has the pleasure of welcoming you to the seminar Developments in Georgia – Challenges for Western integration at Stora Nygatan 30 in Stockholm,...
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Well-attended seminar on the developments in Georgia
Wednesday, January 27, the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation arranged the seminar Developments in Georgia – Challenges for Western integration. Two representatives of United National Movement (UNM),...
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Conferences on establishing a women network in Georgia
Participants from one of the conferences in Kutaisi, Georgia During the last year, the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation and the International Republican Institute have arranged women conferences for active...
View ArticleTensions ahead of midterm local elections in Georgia
Representatives of the leading opposition party in Georgia, United National Movement (UNM), were last Sunday encountered by an offensive mob as they were visiting a polling station in Kortskheli in the...
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Conferences on door-to-door campaigning in Tbilisi
Local leaders from UNM at one of the two conferences on door-to-door campaigning After almost four years of populistic and oligaristic rule with Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream, the opinion polls...
View ArticleInvitation: Seminar on the elections in Georgia
13 October, 201612:00till13:00Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation has the pleasure of welcoming you to a seminar on the elections in Georgia at Stora Nygatan 30 in Stockholm, Thursday, October 13, 2016. Read...
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Seminar on the Georgian parliamentary elections attracted great interest
Thursday, October 13, the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation hosted a lunch seminar on the Georgian parliamentary elections that took place on October 8th. Thornike Gordadze, Senior Advisor for Education,...
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SEMINAR: A Europe without Political Prisoners?
14 December, 201715:30till17:00Please join the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation for a seminar with Alexander Solovyev, Andrey Dmitriev and Gigi Ugulava on the state of human rights in Europe’s East....
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