LONDON – France is looking at adopting a new law that would require non-governmental groups, consultancies and foreigners residing in the country to disclose any involvement with or professional allegiance to foreign governments as part of a crackdown on foreign interference in French electoral processes and political life.

“Foreign interference is a current, real and immediate threat,” claimed Mr Sacha Houlie, president of the Law Committee of France’s National Assembly, the country’s lower parliamentary chamber.