We continue to find that this kind of legislative activity to be deeply problematic and inconsistent with EU aspirations, - the Principal Deputy Spokesperson for the US Department of State, Vedant Patel, said at a briefing regarding the draft law on "Transparency of Foreign Influence".

“We certainly support what in the United States would be an expression of the people’s rights under the First Amendment to peacefully protest and demonstrate. Our call and our push, of course, continues to be that they be peaceful and certainly would condemn any steps that are taken for these kinds of protests to become violent.

I think this goes back to the draft law that you and I have been speaking about for a number of weeks now. We continue to find that this kind of legislative activity to be deeply problematic and inconsistent with – what would one would think – EU aspirations. You have to remember we’re talking about something that cracks down on media organizations, civil society organizations, and other things”, he said.