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The government is preparing an attack on NGOs in Poland

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Rule of Law

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12 May 2020

The government is preparing an attack on NGOs in Poland

The Ministry of the Environment has started work on a plan to disclose the financing of NGOs. In this plan, NGOs will be obliged to state that they are being financed from abroad. Laws like this already operate in Russia, Hungary, and Israel.

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