Thousands of pro-EU protesters in Tbilisi clashed with police using water cannons and tear gas after Georgia's ruling party froze EU accession talks, sparking widespread outrage in the country.
Police deploying water cannon, tear gas and pepper spray confronted thousands of pro-European protesters erecting barricades in the center of Tbilisi on Saturday (November 30) after Georgia's ruling party said it was halting EU accession talks until 2028.
European Union accession is overwhelmingly popular in Georgia according to opinion polls, and the move saw thousands mass outside the parliament building in Tbilisi on Thursday before they were dispersed by riot police using water cannon and gas.
The freezing of application talks has been met with widespread anger in Georgia, which has the aim of EU membership written into its constitution.
Protesters carrying Georgian and EU flags pressed towards the Soviet-built fortress-like parliament building and hurled fireworks at police officers. Police forced them away from the assembly and down Rustaveli Boulevard toward the opera house.
Still in their thousands, demonstrators seized anything to hand and stood atop ramshackle barricades in a standoff with officers well past midnight. Fires were ablaze on the boulevard.
The ruling Georgian Dream party, which won almost 54% of the vote in an October election that opposition parties say was rigged, said on Thursday that it was freezing membership talks over what it said was EU "blackmail" of Georgia.
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