EU member states’ ambassadors on COREPER agreed on Wednesday 5 October to negotiate with the European Parliament a visa-free travel scheme for Georgia, thus agreeing to the visa-free travel proposal issued by the European Commission in March 2016.
By agreeing in principle in this manner, the Council will now agree with the European Parliament on the final conditions to allow Georgians to benefit from the scheme, including the introduction of a mechanism for suspending visa-free travel. ...