This last makes this spectacular leap on the account of the economic reforms

The European Union would be well advised to adopt a common energy policy to manage its relationship with the Russia, said at the "Echos" Nino Burjanadze, the President of the Georgian Parliament, in its intervention before the Union of Western Europe in Paris, at the beginning of week. It also considers that the main reason for tension between Moscow and Tbilisi is bound to the will of the Kremlin to exclusively control Europe access to oil, "while the Georgia represents a point of AC transit for gas and oil from Azerbaijan or Central Asia". Known as the Moscow opposition to the construction of the pipeline linking the port of Baku on the Caspian Sea to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean, via the Georgia. According to Nino Burjanadze, even if "The Georgia wishes to have good relations with the Russia, supplier and customer first plan", the Kremlin plays for years "a negative role in the resolution of the conflict" in the Caucasus, including in the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Two regions beyond de facto sovereignty of the Georgia for years and whose Russian-speaking inhabitants receive... Russian passports, while "the priority of priorities for Tbilisi is to restore its territorial integrity."

"Intensified dialogue".

Moscow also imposed last year an embargo on Georgian wine, which are yet no objection of the European health authorities phytosanitary pretexts. And the Russia has recently announced a doubling of the price of gas sold to the Georgia, at $ 230 1,000 m3, is the price in force in Western Europe. A measure estimated by Standard and Poor's to the equivalent of 1 point of GDP, or $ 200 million.

Moscow also cut since September any relationship postal, banking, railway with its former sister of USSR Republic, since Tbilisi had briefly arrested five Russian officers presented as spies. Nino Burdzhanadze said the impact of these recent measures amounts to 1 or 2 points of GDP, which will not prevent the country to register a growth of 8 next year, as this year.

Illustrated by the recent acquisition of Bank Republik, the third of the country, by Société Générale, "foreign investment have also doubled year last from 2005, exceed 1 billion for the first time", said the President of the Parliament. This last makes this spectacular leap on the account of the economic reforms. And it strongly contests that they are at a standstill since the "rose revolution" which brought the Mikhaël Saakashvilli power two years ago. "The number of licenses and permissions for an economic activity has been reduced from 21 to 7, a tax reform based on a"flat tax"12 established and the customs code, whose complexity was source of corruption, simplified to the extreme with three categories of products taxed at 0, 5 or 12". Nino Burdzhanadze said that fiscal and customs revenue as a result experienced a dramatic improvement.

Finally, integration with economic structures and, especially, made Western security subject to consensus of the whole of the political class is the President of the Parliament. The Georgia has the status of "intensified dialogue" with NATO, until a partnership on membership, and sent troops alongside the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nino Burjanadze also felt that "the signing of an agreement of free trade with the Union is a political signal very hard" on the desire of Europe to stabilize its Southeast flank.