Lawfare Daily: Georgia's Foreign Agent Bill with Thomas de Waal
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🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On May 14, the Georgian parliament passed a controversial foreign agent bill titled “Transparency of Foreign Influence,” which has led to mass protests across the country. Although President Salome Zourabichvili's vetoed the bill, Georgia Dream, the majority party, overturned the veto on May 28, ensuring the enactment of this legislation.
Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey sat down with Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe Thomas de Waal to discuss what exactly was in the bill, why it was so controversial, how the U.S. and European Union have reacted, and why Georgia Dream decided to pass it now.
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| 1:02.6 | You know, the West, right across the board from the US to all across the EU, and you've talked about you know, Council of Europe |
| 1:15.2 | giving its legal opinion. Everyone has told George Green not to propose this bill |
| 1:21.6 | that threaten threats to sanctions and the answer seems to be we don't care, bring it on. |
| 1:28.5 | It's the Lawfare Podcast. I'm Anna Hickey, associate Editor for Communications with Thomas de Wall, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe. |
| 1:37.0 | You know, I get the people who've grown up in a basically free democratic Georgia and they kind of smell |
| 1:46.8 | authoritarian rule in the air under Georgian dream because this bill is just one of |
| 1:51.2 | many measures that they've taken with the rolling back democracy. |
| 1:56.3 | Today we're talking about the foreign agent legislation recently passed by the Georgian Parliament |
| 2:01.8 | and the Democratic backsliding occurring across Eastern Europe and |
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