15/07/2026
On 9 July, the European Parliament "rejected" Chat Control. It passed anyway.
A parliamentary majority voted against reinstating mass scanning of private messages. It lost, not because the argument failed, but because a procedural threshold, timed for the last sitting day before summer recess, let a minority position win by default.
Together for Europe has published a review of what happened, why it matters beyond this one law, and what it reveals about how intergovernmental Europe currently works: unpopular measures get driven through Brussels by national governments who can then blame "Brussels" when it lands.
Read it here: https://f.mtr.cool/oanrjuufun