On June 9 the EU announced the suspension of Georgia’s accession talks and on June 11, the declaration that followed this year’s annual Nato Summit failed to include the phrase “Georgia will become a member of the Alliance with the Membership Action Plan as an integral part of the process” for the first time since it was adopted in 2008. Thus, the two leading pillars of Georgia’s foreign policy for the last twenty years – and the key aspirations of the overwhelming majority of Georgians – have been dashed. It is not the first, but the second, time that the aspirations of the Georgian people ha…