US, EU, Slate Bosnian Serb Push to Designate NGOs as ‘Foreign Agents’

The EU and US have criticised plans by Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, president of Bosnia’s mainly Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity, to push a new Russian-style law which would allow the entity to mark civil society and non-governmental organisations as “foreign agents”.

Dodik did not mention Russia and claimed it would be identical to the law in the United States. “In their law, the US refers to foreign non-governmental organisations or those financed by foreigners as foreign agents on US territory,” Dodik told the media last week, adding that the terminology...