What Actually Happened on April 22, 2026 # On Wednesday, April 22, 2026, an unusually dense sequence of security- and surveillance-policy events moved in parallel through Germany and Brussels:
This week, the EU Parliament rejected chat control for the second time. 311 MEPs voted against, 228 in favor. Sounds like a victory. It isn’t.
The third attempt is coming. It always comes. Every time with a new name, new framing — but “child protection!” remains the lever that never changes. And interestingly, this time the Social Democrats (S&D) voted mostly in favor. Left-right logic has long ceased to explain anything in surveillance debates.
