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States should enable NGOs to access funding foreign funding, say Venice Commission experts

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Law European Commission
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EU

15 March 2019

"In the wake of recent challenges to the independent functioning of associations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the Council of Europe's constitutional legal experts today adopted a report on standards with respect to foreign funding of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Council of Europe member states."

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States should enable NGOs to access funding foreign funding, say Venice Commission experts (link):

"In the wake of recent challenges to the independent functioning of associations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the Council of Europe's constitutional legal experts today adopted a report on standards with respect to foreign funding of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Council of Europe member states."

See Press release (link)

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