The Hungarian Parliament passed a new law on non-governmental organizations today, which is widely thought to attack civil society in Hungary and has been criticized by the European Commission. The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (TASZ) said it will apply civil disobedience.
The approved law requires groups receiving more than 24,000 euros annually ($26,000) in overseas funding to register as "foreign-supported" and disclose their foreign donors, or face closure. The legislation resembles a law passed in Russia in 2012, which requires NGOs receiving foreign funding to register as "foreign agents."
https://bbj.hu/politics/ngo-law-passed-tasz-plans-civil-disobedience_134218 In Anti-Soros Feud, Hungary Adopts Rules on Foreign-Financed Groups https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/world/europe/hungary-law-ngo-soros.html Hungary: NGO law a vicious and calculated assault on civil society https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/06/hungary-ngo-law-a-vicious-and-calculated-assault-on-civil-society/ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
