The European Commission is working hard on a transparency law based on the Hungarian law that led to a campaign against our country by the EU and the mainstream Western media.
The European Commission is developing a law called the Transparency Act, which contains measures similar to the previous Hungarian Civil Code. In short, all this means that the EU would oblige non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to declare their income from outside the EU, their supporters outside the EU and to make the amount of donations transparent. As is known, following the introduction of the law in Hungary, a press campaign was launched against our country. In practice, there was no major Western media that did not write condemningly about the law, which was criticized by the UN and the European Commission, reports Magyar Nemzet .
The Brussels newspaper Politico, which reported on the draft, also thought it discovered similarities between the legislation that is being prepared and the previous "civil law" in Hungary.
It should be remembered that in 2017, the cabinet introduced this measure in order to make the foreign subsidies of civil organizations transparent. According to the regulations, associations and foundations must notify the court of their becoming a foreign-supported organization within 15 days, as soon as the amount of subsidies they receive for the current year reaches twice the amount specified in the Anti-Money Laundering Act, i.e. HUF 7.2 million.
The legislation was branded a "Russian-type" law by the relevant organizations and the left-wing press despite the fact that it was much milder than the one in Russia and that similar regulations are in force in the United States and Israel.
Cover image: the European Parliament (Photo: MTI/EPA/Stephanie Lecocq)
