The ICC issued a warrant. Most EU countries ignored it. Slovenia didn't.

Slovenia declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu persona non grata on September 25, 2025, becoming the first European Union member state to ban him from entering its territory. The government cited the ICC arrest warrant issued which charged Netanyahu with war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection with the military offensive in Gaza.

The move followed a series of escalating steps by Slovenia, which had already recognized Palestine as an independent state in June 2024, banned two far-right Israeli ministers from entering the country in July 2025, and imposed the EU's first arms embargo on Israel in August 2025. Slovenian President Natasa Pirc Musar addressed the UN General Assembly the same week, calling on all nations to act.

Netanyahu's flight to the UN that week reportedly avoided the airspace of every country that might enforce the warrant.