Germany’s Foreign Ministry announced that it had summoned Georgia’s envoy on Thursday. ‘We conveyed a clear message: the unfounded accusations and aggressive rhetoric by Georgian authorities against the German Ambassador in Tbilisi are unacceptable and must stop’, the ministry’s brief statement on X read. The summons came a week after Georgia had summoned Ambassador Fischer for allegedly interfering in state affairs, including encouraging a ‘radical agenda’ in the country. The summons follows an ongoing escalation in negative rhetoric from the Georgian Dream government against Western ambassadors. At the time of his summoning in late September, Germany’s Foreign Ministry stated that it rejected the ‘continuing aggressive rhetoric by representatives of […] Georgian Dream towards’ Fischer.