GD Pushes “Blackmail” Narrative on Possible Suspension by EU of Visa-Free Regime

By the end of the year, the European Union intends to further simplify the cancellation of visa-free travel for citizens of the 61 countries that currently enjoy this privilege, including the countries of the Western Balkans, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. It is this issue that has received quite a lot of feedback on social networks. Representatives of the “Georgian Dream” claim that the EU actively uses the visa-free regime as a blackmail mechan…

GD Pushes “Blackmail” Narrative on Possible Suspension by EU of Visa-Free Regime

Georgian Dream Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili slammed the EU, saying that the visa-free issue was being used “by a part of the Brussels bureaucracy” as a “tool of political pressure and blackmail,” adding: “These are methods from a hundred years ago,” while also expressing confidence that the European Union would not suspend the country’s visa-free travel regime. Papuashvili’s comments came in response to earlier remarks by German Ambassa…

Today, the growth of the European Union economy is one percent and ten percent in Georgia, it is because we think economically correctly. If they closed visas, if they did not allow tourists who spend money in that country, they would not have this growth either, the Georgian people should think about this too, – said the Chairman of the Parliament Shalva Papuashvili on “Imedi”. The presenter asked him whether he expects the EU to suspend visa l…