EU ‘#foreign_agents’ law spooks NGOs
▻https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ursula-von-der-leyen-ngo-qatargate-foreign-agents-law-disturbs-ngos
The European Union is working on a law that would force nongovernmental groups, consultancies and academic institutions to disclose any non-EU funding as part of a crackdown on foreign influence in the bloc, three sources confirmed to POLITICO.
[...] Yet critics are calling the timing awkward. The EU was ramping up work on the proposal just as #Georgia erupted in protests over a similar bill, which would have forced organizations to register as “agents of foreign influence” if more than 20 percent of their funding came from abroad.