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Georgia’s Foreign Minister, Maka Bochorishvili sought to reassure the public that there is “no danger” to Georgia’s status as the European Union’s revised visa rules include Georgia.
The European Parliament voted on new rules allowing the European Union to more swiftly suspend visa-free travel arrangements with non-EU countries, citing concerns over security, human rights, and policy compliance.
The reform applies to 61 countries whose citizens currently enjoy short-term visa-free access to the Schengen area, including Georgia.
Bochorishvili told reporters. “I can reassure you that you will not be suspended because of the Georgian Dream’s policy. We received visa-free travel thanks to the Georgian Dream’s policy, and we continue to meet all obligations tied to it.”
The minister also rejected the notion that Georgia’s relations with the EU were at risk, calling the current debate an “instrumentalization” of the topic for political purposes.
“There is nothing to save from visa-free travel if there is a fair attitude toward Georgia,” she added. “Our country has consistently fulfilled all its commitments under the Association Agreement.”
Bochorishvili’s comments come amid broader discussions in Brussels over migration management and democratic standards.
The European Parliament’s reform aims to strengthen the bloc’s ability to respond quickly to changing global conditions, but Georgian officials insist that Tbilisi’s cooperation with the EU remains strong and fully aligned with European requirements.
According to the European Parliament’s statement, the revised mechanism gives the European Commission broader powers to temporarily, and potentially permanently, reintroduce visa requirements if a partner country poses heightened security risks or sees a surge in irregular arrivals.
The new framework also adds several grounds for triggering a suspension including hybrid threats such as the instrumentalization of migration, investor citizenship schemes (so-called “golden passports”), inconsistency with EU visa policy, serious human rights or humanitarian law violations, and failure to comply with International Court of Justice rulings.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
Dushanbe enters one of its busiest diplomatic weeks in recent times as it gears up to host the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) heads of state and a Central Asia – Russia meeting. Both events are set to hold from 8 - 12 October in Tajikistan.
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev welcomed a Croatian delegation led by Gordan Jandroković, Speaker of the Croatian Parliament, marking his first official visit to Azerbaijan.
A new stage of economic transformation is under way in Karakalpakstan, where authorities have announced 27 large-scale projects worth nearly $2 billion with an aim to boost growth in the region.
Hamas said on Wednesday (8 October) it had exchanged a list of the names of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners to be released under a swap deal and that it was optimistic about talks in Egypt on U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza.
Fifteen Turkish activists, who were detained by Israel aboard the Gaza-bound Global Sumud humanitarian aid flotilla, arrived at Istanbul Airport on Tuesday.
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