nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230301-185208-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230301s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230301-185208-0 doi eng 342 23 Zedelashvili, Davit Author aut (orcid)0009-0006-6450-4912 Georgia’s Bill on Foreign Agents and the Limits of the EU’s Soft Power Zedelashvili, Davit Verfassungsblog 2023-03-01 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On February 20, 2023, the Parliament of Georgia registered the bill "On the transparency of foreign influence" that introduces the category of an "agent of foreign influence" – any private legal entity which gets more than 20% of its entire budget from a "foreign force". These facially innocent "monitoring" functions harbour a potentially totalitarian instrument of control. In Georgia, which underwent Stalinist purges of the 1930s, where family members (anonymously) denounced each other to the NKVD (secret police) and innocent people were rounded and summarily executed on charges of being a "foreign agent", this rings a much louder alarm bell, than elsewhere.  CC BY-SA 4.0 EU Accession Foreign Agents Georgia Rule of Law Russian War against Ukraine Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/georgias-bill-on-foreign-agents-and-the-limits-of-the-eus-soft-power/ raw object