EU justice ministers at their informal meeting in Dublin Castle under the Irish presidency, 17 July 2026. Photo: Council of the EU, © European Union, 2026 (cropped).
On 9 September 2026 this site moved Slovenia from Against to Unclear in the record of the 27 governments. Ljubljana said nothing new that day. The change comes from two documents read side by side: a statement by the Ministry of the Interior of 2 October 2025, made under the previous government, and the German delegation’s minutes of the Council working party of 10 June 2026, published by netzpolitik.org on 12 June, in which the delegation of the government confirmed six days earlier called its scrutiny reservation on the presidency’s detection compromise positive.
What the documents say
On 2 October 2025 the Ministry of the Interior announced, as reported that day by Zanima.me, that Slovenia “does not support the proposal in its current form”, the reason being “the disproportionate interference with privacy that the regulation provides for” (translated from the Slovenian report). The proposal was the text then listed for a Council decision on 14 October 2025. That statement is the position in the record, and it was made under the government of Robert Golob.
On 4 June 2026 the National Assembly confirmed the government of Janez Janša (gov.si, 5 June 2026). The Interior portfolio now belongs to Franci Matoz as Minister of the Interior and Public Administration. The record has found no statement by the new government on the file.
On 10 June 2026 the counsellors of the 27 governments held the first substantive discussion of the presidency’s proposal on voluntary detection and detection orders, document 9659/26, which pairs voluntary searches by providers in non-public content with detection orders for publicly accessible content and targeted orders against specific users (presidency note to Coreper, document 10499/26). The German minutes record: “LTU, GRC, SVK, MLT, BGR, ROU, FIN (mit Hinweis auf kritische Haltung des nationalen Parlaments), SVN, CZE, SWE, DNK und BEL legten Prüfvorbehalt ein, wobei LTU, GRC, MLT, SVN, SWE und BEL diesen als positiv bezeichneten.” Twelve delegations entered a scrutiny reservation; six, Slovenia among them, called theirs positive.
What it changes in the record
A scrutiny reservation is not a vote, and “positive” is the German delegation’s word for how Slovenia’s representative described it, not a Slovenian statement. It is, though, the only recorded signal from the new government, and it points the other way from October 2025. The record therefore lists Slovenia as Unclear since 4 June 2026, keeps the 2025 statement on the country page as the last stated position, and says so in the changelogs of the Chat Control Tracker, Where the 27 governments stand and Who decides, by name.
Governments on record against mandatory scanning: nine instead of ten. Their share of the EU population: 32.9 per cent instead of 33.3. Distance to a blocking minority, which needs four governments and more than 35 per cent: 2.1 points instead of 1.7. Slovenia’s 0.47 per cent could not close that gap alone; Belgium (2.63) or Portugal (2.38), both listed as unclear, could. The article of 8 September on the blocking minority carries an update at the top rather than a silent rewrite.
What would move Slovenia back to Against, or on to For: a statement by the government or the minister, a recorded vote, or minutes in which its delegation takes a position on detection itself. The record changes on the day such a document appears, and the changelog says so.
Record notes are short, dated entries: one document, what it says, what it changes on this site. Sources: Zanima.me, “Slovenija sprejela stališče proti nadzoru zasebne komunikacije”, 2 October 2025; Government of Slovenia, “National Assembly confirms new government cabinet”, gov.si, 5 June 2026; Ministry of the Interior and Public Administration, gov.si; netzpolitik.org, “Interne Dokumente: Trilog zur Chatkontrolle geht in entscheidende Phase”, 12 June 2026, with the German delegation’s minutes of the JHA counsellors’ meetings of 21 May and 10 June 2026; Council of the EU, presidency note to Coreper, document 10499/26, 22 June 2026; Slovenia in the record, changelog of 9 September 2026.
