The EU bribery-hit scandal is said to be legislation that has “frightened” left-wing charities and NGOs because it would require them to disclose any international funding in a bid to curb foreign influence.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, is said to be currently preparing a bill similar to the US Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, which would require lobbyists to declare if they act as an agent of a foreign government. However, the EU legislation is believed to only target organizations, not individuals, such as non-governmental organizations and charities, according to the a report From the Politico website.
The move comes against the backdrop of one of the biggest scandals in the bloc’s history, in which Socialist Members of the European Parliament (MEP), among others, are accused of taking suitcases full of cash in bribes from Qatar and possibly other countries in exchange for lobbying. The bill is also likely to be sold as a way to reduce the influence of hostile countries such as Communist China and Russia.
However, according to the news site, a proposed law requiring organizations to disclose their foreign funding has “horrified” NGOs, with some already receiving a questionnaire from the commission – as part of its impact assessment – asking them to disclose their lack of funding. financial backers of the European Union.
“It’s clearly a sensitive issue,” an unnamed commission official said of the bill. “We are still in the early stages of gathering information from a wide range of stakeholders to ensure we are taking the right approach.”
Nick Ayusa of the Berlin-based NGO Transparency International said in response to the questionnaire that questions about funding “surprised a lot of people”.
Aiossa, which is its organization Financially supported by the likes of global billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundation as well as foreign governments from outside the European Union such as the US, UK, Canada and Taiwan, among others, he added: “Guiding questions indicate that they were assessing whether Transparency International was a threat to democracy.”
Orban hailed the victory over “the left at home, the international left everywhere, the Brussels bureaucrats, the Soros empire with all its money, the major international media and, in the end, even the Ukrainian president”. https://t.co/5qQQZZ5QZ7
– BreitbartLondon April 4, 2022
The Politico report went on to reveal that other NGOs I spoke to expressed concern that such EU legislation would enable leaders like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to, in the website’s words, “strangle pro-democracy forces”. in their countries.” nation.”
Orban has long sought to scrutinize foreign-funded NGOs, which he claimed often work on behalf of liberal administrations in the United States, albeit on pause under former President Donald Trump. Figures such as Anglo-American Hungarian billionaire George Soros have been accused of meddling in Hungarian politics to try to promote global agenda items such as open border migration policies, which Orban, one of the few EU leaders, has opposed.
As Breitbart London reported in 2017, the Fidesz leader said: “Those [open borders theories] Born in Soros’ workshop, it has also penetrated a number of international institutions. We must fight these battles. We must argue against them. We must make their operations transparent, and we must make it clear that oftentimes it is not about human rights principles, but about greed and the actions of migrants.”
Conservatives in other EU countries, notably Italy, have found themselves at odds with international NGOs, some of which have already sponsored boats to pick up migrants from Africa in the Mediterranean and bring them ashore in Italy.
One such organisation, Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French name Médecins Sans Frontières – which has Soros was also received Money – He was accused of violating a government decree from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni earlier this year that required NGO “migrant taxi” ships to return to port after a “rescue mission” rather than continue sailing and pick up more migrants.
Its NGO-funded migrant taxi operations have previously been accused by the EU border agency Frontex of serving as a “pull factor” for illegal immigration into the bloc. The organizations have also been accused of working directly with people smuggling operations, as well as causing more deaths of migrants at sea, as many of them set sail with no other hope of survival than to be picked up by NGO boats.
France admits “real collusion” between people smugglers and NGOs “rescuing” migrants https://t.co/NGgHZRSIns
– BreitbartLondon April 7, 2019
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