The European Commission and Georgia held their first dialogue since March on Thursday 11 June, and it produced no reversal and no expansion1. The contact was the first since Brussels suspended visa-free travel for holders of Georgian diplomatic, service and official passports on 6 March. That suspension stands until 6 March 2027, yet it touches only officials. Ordinary Georgian citizens travelling on standard biometric passports keep their visa-free Schengen access.
That distinction is the whole story for the estimated 6,000 to 8,000 non-EU remote workers who use Georgia as a base to reset their Schengen clock. The rule driving them is the 90-days-in-180 limit: a non-EU national may spend at most 90 days in any rolling 180-day window inside the Schengen area, and a stint in Georgia, which sits outside it, lets that allowance recover. Thousands time their European stays around that single reprieve, but only until March 2027, when the Commission can extend the diplomatic suspension by up to 24 months or widen it to all Georgian citizens, which would close the route2. the Commission still calls the Georgian government's conduct incompatible with Union rules and values. Tbilisi argues the measures are political pressure dressed as rule-of-law enforcement, and on the record neither side has tested that claim before a court.
The risk to nomads inside Georgia was never really Brussels. It is the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Georgia), which holds unannounced inspection powers and a fine ladder that started at 2,000 GEL (Georgian lari, roughly €680) on 1 May. The ministry has published no enforcement data since, so a remote worker on the ground cannot price the real odds of a home inspection even while the Schengen reset above them looks safe. Hungary's 5 June halt on Georgian worker visas was a separate bilateral move, not an EU one.
