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In October 2025, Georgia held local elections in which the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party secured approximately 80.7% of the vote, winning across all 63 municipalities. The elections were boycotted by major opposition parties, further consolidating GD’s control over local governance.

Having settled into the White House at the beginning of the year, President Trump adopted a policy oriented towards normalizing relations with Russia, while the leading European powers, building on their policy of Russophobia, were opposed to this.

The attempts of Friedrich Merz’s government to “relaunch” Germany’s role as a global political actor in the Global South without revising its conceptual foundations risk leaving the country stranded on the margins of international diplomacy – caught between formal participation and substantive isolation.