Experts from the Council of Europe have criticized a controversial law on the disclosure of foreign funding in the South Caucasus republic of Georgia as undemocratic. The law on the transparency of foreign influence should be withdrawn, said a statement published on Tuesday evening in Strasbourg by the council’s Venice Commission – a rule-of-law advisory body. Despite weeks of mass protests, the governing majority of the Georgian Dream party last week approved the law, which seeks to limit foreign influence on non-governmental organizations, tightening accountability for aid organizations and …