Ultimately, the EU will (perhaps reluctantly) have to engage with the Georgian Dream government, writes Rikard Jozwiak, editor of the Europe Bureau of Radio Liberty, after the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.

“According to the EU officials I’ve spoken to, there is definitely a sense that they are the only ones on the dance floor, so the EU doesn"t really have much choice.

Part of the problem for EU officials is that there isn’t really a smoking gun when it comes to accusations of widespread fraud. There is skepticism that the ruling party got 54 percent support in the elections, but it’s hardly an outlandish claim. (Something more realistic would perhaps have been support of somewhere between 40 and 50 percent).

Given that the OSCE election-monitoring report can take around three months to appear, there isn’t much that can be done now except wait”, - writes Rikard Jozwiak.