Overview

• Diplomatic sources say the Danish Council presidency’s compromise lacked the support needed, so no vote will take place at the next EU interior ministers’ meeting.
• Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig stated that a general, suspicionless chat control is incompatible with the rule of law and said Germany will not approve such proposals at EU level.
• The draft hinges on client-side scanning that checks content on devices before encryption, which critics warn would weaken end-to-end security and generate many false positives.
• Independent data-protection authorities and the VPN Trust Initiative urged Berlin to oppose any weakening of encryption, while lawmakers in the Bundestag pushed motions to explicitly exclude client-side scanning.
• Messaging providers and civil society intensified pressure, with Signal warning it could leave the European market and a petition gathering roughly 280,000 signatures, as observers note the file could return in revised form under a future presidency.