EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner on Tuesday said the European Union would introduce new legal grounds for suspending visa-free travel agreements with third countries. The changes aim to strengthen the EU’s migration a...
Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Irakli Chikovani held an introductory meeting with the newly appointed Ambassador of France to Georgia,Olivier Courteaud. Chikovani congratulated the Ambassador on the start of his diplomatic mission and w...
The European Parliament has backed a simplified procedure for suspending visa-free travel for nationals of third countries. The new rules aim to streamline the process for temporarily halting visa liberalization in cases where conditions are not met....
The Tbilisi City Court, presided over by Judge Lela Maridashvili, has ordered pretrial detention for five leaders of the Rustaveli Avenue Movement Paata Burchuladze, Murtaz Zodelava, Irakli Nadiradze, Paata Manjgaladze, and Colonel Lasha Beridze. The...
The Georgian Parliament has approved a legislative amendment establishing a three-year residency permit for foreign specialists in the information technology sector, providing a legal pathway for international professionals to live and work in the co...
The chair of the United National Movement (UNM), Tina Bokuchava, on Tuesday said that no judge in Georgia could make an independent or fair decision in political cases, accusing the judiciary of serving the government’s political agenda. “No person ...
The parliamentary majority leader, Irakli Kirtskhalia, said at a Georgian Dream briefing that the government will maintain a policy of "patience" toward Western diplomats and remain in a mode of “one-sided friendship” with European partners until, in...
The Leader of the Parliamentary majority, Irakli Kirtskhalia, has accused several Western and EU-member-state ambassadors accredited in Georgia of “crossing diplomatic boundaries” and showing “clear signs of interference” in the country’s internal af...
The United National Movement (UNM) opposition on Tuesday condemned what it called a new wave of political repression, claiming that the government had arrested 15 peaceful demonstrators, including four of its members - Aleksandre Khabeishvili, Sergo ...
Georgian police have seized 112 packages of the narcotic drug methadone and arrested a 43-year-old repeat offender in Zugdidi, western Georgia, on charges of large-scale drug possession and distribution, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) announc...
