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With disinformation from Russia and other malign actors spreading across the EU’s mediasphere, legislators in Brussels are looking into a new foreign agent law which could limit their impact. However, this policy discussion must learn from lessons of the past to avoid curtailing democratic freedoms.
The European Union is working on a law forcing nongovernmental groups, consultancies and academic institutions to disclose any non-EU funding as part of a crackdown on foreign influence in the bloc, POLITICO reports.
Developing so-called foreign agent laws triggers a wide and often negative reaction from civil society at the level of national states. At the same time, the European Union has declared its aim to escalate efforts to counter and mitigate foreign interference and influence within its member states.