Irakli Kobakhidze from the Georgian Dream party has taken office as Prime Minister in the Caucasus republic of Georgia. In parliament in Tbilisi on Thursday, a majority voted in favour of the 45-year-old lawyer, who had studied in the German city of Dusseldorf. He was later officially appointed by President Salome Zurabishvili, even though the head of state had questioned his loyalty to Georgia’s pro-European course just a few days earlier. The former Soviet republic on the Black Sea was categorised as an EU accession candidate at an EU summit last December. Kobakhidze was previously chairman …