The European Union warned Tuesday that it may suspend the exception of passports from which the citizens of Georgia benefit due to the repression of the opposition on the part of the government and the ‘Return of democracy’ In the Caucasus state.

“We sent (…) letter to Georgia on the status of common visa” Passports, Kaya Callas, the head of European diplomacy, told Brussels.

They must fulfill specific conditions, “And if they are not respected without delay, then we should suspend the common visa regime”from which citizens of Georgia wish to travel to the EU, he added, stressing that Brussels give to the Tbiliski Deadline to the end of August.

EU officials have strongly criticized authorities in Georgia because of the wave of arrests of political figures, activists and journalists opposing the ruling party in the country.

Brussels considers that government measures, as well as laws that reduce the so -called civil society, divert agriculture from the way to the accession of the country of 3.7 million residents to the European Coalition.

EU Member States are advocating to take measures against the Georgian authorities and a proposal to impose sanctions on judges involved in the imprisonment of opposition forms were put on the table. However, a veto of Hungary – the Prime Minister whose Victor Orban He is an ally of the ruling party of the Georgian dream – he has so far paralyzed the moves to take steps to push the Tbiliski.

Georgia acquired a country regime candidate at the end of 2023. He had made a request shortly after the invasion of the Russian army on the territory of Ukraine in February 2022.