Recently, many nations have enacted tougher legislation to control the activity of shady NGOs receiving foreign funding and interfering with the political life of countries.
Belarus, Russia, Hungary, Georgia, Bosnia, Kyrgyzstan, India, China, Egypt and Uganda have been reported to implement new laws – and now its Slovakia’s turn.
In a country where Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot multiple times by a pro-Ukraine opposition militant, the parliament has yesterday (16) approved a law tightening the reporting and other requirements for non-governmental organizations.
As we would expect, the changes were decried by these organizations, that call it a ‘Russian law’ and accuse the government of settling scores with ‘critics’.
Reuters reported:
“The law orders non-governmental organizations to detail their donors and publish wide lists of officials, and introduces fines for administrative errors.
The government, led by pro-Russian Prime Minister Robert Fico, has long accused non-governmental organizations of supporting the liberal opposition and foreign interests, taking aim at those getting funding from a foundation set up by U.S. philanthropist George Soros.”
Fico blamed these Globalist organizations for ‘planning to escalate peaceful public protests’ against his government’s policies.
“’Non-governmental organizations are a grey zone, they do politics, draw money from around the world and no one knows what they do with it’, ruling party SMER-SSD Richard Glück told a news conference on Monday.
Fico’s party had originally planned more far-reaching changes, including labelling non-government organizations as ‘organizations with foreign support’ like those in Russia or Georgia, provoking a warning from the European Commission.”
Even the tamed version of the law is causing a meltdown in Slovakia and across the EU.
“Non-governmental organizations have said the law was meant to intimidate, could breach constitutional rights and went against rulings by Europe’s Court of Justice.”
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