The Georgian parliament passed a law to tighten checks on non-governmental organizations funded from abroad despite mass protests and a presidential veto, dismaying critics and leading the EU to vow consequences. Lawmakers in Tbilisi overruled a veto by President Salome Zurabishvili opposing the law on Tuesday. A simple majority is sufficient to reject the veto and 84 of the 150 members of parliament voted in favour of the law. Zurabishvili said the law, which requires organizations that receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as “foreign agents,” was “Russian in its ess…