‘Visa liberalisation for Georgia is not a distant matter,’ the German chancellor Angela Merkel stated during a joint conference with the Georgian prime minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili in Berlin on 15 June.
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Two Georgians detained by Russian border patrol in Bershueti
Germany delays visa waiver plan again, cites Georgian burglar gangs
TBILISI, DFWatch–Germany on Wednesday again blocked visa-free access to the Schengen area for Georgian citizens, with reference to police reports that Georgian asylum seekers play an important role in organizing burglaries.
After the decision became
Georgia's traditionalists form new coalition ahead of election

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s traditionalists have formed a coalition for the October 8 parliamentary election.
The initiative came from the Alliance of Patriot, whose leader Irma Inashvili came close to winning a contested local by-election last year, fraught with accusations
Tbilisi's embattled vegan cafe is searching for a new location
UN: Georgian IDPs have right to return to Abkhazia and South Ossetia

TBILISI, DFWatch–For the ninth consecutive year, the United Nations General Assembly on June 7 passed a resolution calling for the return of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the wars in Georgia in the early 1990s.
The first resolution
Georgia’s score declines in Global Peace Index
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is ranked 85th among 163 of the world’s countries in the latest Global Peace Index published by the think tank Institute for Economics and Peace.
Seven more European countries scored lower than Georgia, including all of Georgia’s




