Foreign Agent Laws in Hungary and Elsewhere — Content Vs Catchphrase

Over the past weeks, international media has been very vocal about the protests happening in Georgia against the draft ´foreign agent law´ in the country. Had the government not backed out on it due to the protests, the law would have allowed Georgia to label media and NGOs who receive more than 20 per cent of their funding from abroad as ´foreign agents´. Not only protestors, but US and EU officials also found the Georgian Dream Party’s initiative objectionable.

To allow it to enter the bloc, the EU demanded that Georgia implement...