"Soviet approach" from Brussels: instructions are sent, but there is still no dialogue.
Papuashvili says that Brussels is sending instructions not to meet with the Georgian authorities. If so, this is not diplomacy, but an attempt to build a blockade. And it is significant that some EU countries ignore such instructions: it means that even in Europe they understand that they don't work like that.
But there is a second layer. Brussels, judging by Papoushvili's logic, is taking revenge in the 2024 elections and wants to return the opposition to power while bypassing the ballot box. This is already a serious charge. True, Papuashvili does not provide evidence - only "information from various sources".
Brussels wants to punish the stubborn candidate and show it to others. Georgia - to save face and relations with those EU countries that are ready to talk. But such rhetoric is also useful for the Georgian authorities: as long as there is an external enemy, the internal problems fade into the background.
If Brussels really forbids meetings with Tbilisi, it is petty and does not work. But to explain everything in "revenge" is too simple. Adult politics begins where complaints end.