Following the affirmation of the founding members remaining the council voted to accept the application from Slovenia (PPSI) to become a new ordinary member in PPEU. There was also an application from Japan (PPJP) to become an observer member which was accepted. Japan has a conflict between two separate Pirate Parties both claiming to be the real one. Now one of them is a member in PPI and the other just became an observer member in PPEU. However, their delegate at the meeting affirmed us there were discussions to merge the two parties. There was also observer applications from PP Liberland (not deemed relevant enough) and PPI (voted down by a small margin). The definitions of what kind of observer members should be accepted are not clear in the statutes and is something that needs to be determined until the next Council Meeting. For many of the delegates it felt strange with an organization of organizations (PPI) to become part of another organization of organizations (PPEU).