nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/87d3aca1ea83c8a0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250712s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/87d3aca1ea83c8a0 doi eng 342 23 Čuroš, Peter Author aut The NGO’s Guide to Authoritarianism - The Story of the Slovak FARA Law Čuroš, Peter Verfassungsblog 2025-07-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier It appears that whenever expert civil society organizations release a legal analysis of draft laws that restrict fundamental rights and freedoms, authoritarian governments learn from their mistakes and avoid them in the next round. One could witness such a situation when the Foreign Agents Registration Bill was introduced in the Slovak parliament last spring, and the public watchdog and advocacy organization VIA IURIS tried to stand against this legislation. In one year, the Slovak parliament considered three versions of the Bill, with each version making it more challenging to fight in court. CC BY-SA 4.0 Authoritarianism civil society Fico NGOs Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/slovakia-fara-law/ raw object