2025 Slovenian NATO membership referendum

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A one question non-binding referendum will be held in Slovenia in 2025 regarding Slovenia's NATO membership. [1]

Background

At the start of July 2025 the National Assembly passed a proposal to increase defense spending to 3% of GDP, with the support of the Left, a partner of Prime Minister Robert Golob's Freedom Movement, as well as the opposition. Golob's party voted no, as he had agreed to increase defence spending to 5% at a NATO summit in the Hague the month prior to meet the new spending goal for members of the alliance. [2] Golob subsequently called for a referendum, claiming that "there are only two possible paths: either we remain in the alliance and pay the membership fee, or we leave the alliance". [3]

Opinion polls

A 2025 poll found that support for NATO membership was 52%, compared to the 66% of Slovenians who voted for NATO membership in a referendum in 2003. [4] [5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Brzozowski, Alexandra (5 July 2025). "Slovenia to call consultative referendum on NATO membership". Euractiv . Retrieved 10 July 2025.
  2. ↑ "Defence expenditures and NATO's 5% commitment". NATO . 27 June 2025. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
  3. ↑ Jochecová, Ketrin (9 July 2025). "Slovenia's risky referendum on NATO". Politico . Retrieved 17 July 2025.
  4. ↑ "Slovenians relatively reserved about NATO". STA. 11 July 2025. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
  5. ↑ "Slovenia's risky referendum on NATO". Politico. 9 July 2025. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
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