The European Parliament’s Brotherhood resolution passed 381–167. It designates nobody.

The resolution adopted on 8 October — P10_TA(2026)0342, tabled as B10-0424/2026 by the EPP group under the title “The need for an EU strategy to counter Islamist entryism and the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood network” — passed by 381 votes to 167 with 15 abstentions, a count confirmed by the parliamentary vote record on HowTheyVote.eu and reported by The National, the Jerusalem Post and the ECR group. It asks member states to add individuals and entities linked to the Brotherhood to the EU terrorist list and calls for tighter checks on EU funding. The text as recorded also states that Islam as a religion is not inherently political or hostile and that the overwhelming majority of observant Muslims reject violence against civilians. The ECR group called the vote “an important step towards a tougher and more realistic European response.”

Two bodies on opposite sides of the argument agree on what the resolution is not. The European Jewish Congress, which welcomed the measure, states that any decision to place specific individuals or entities on the EU terrorist list “would remain subject to the separate procedures established under EU law.” The Arabic-language European Centre for Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Studies, writing on 8 October, makes the same point from the other direction: the vote is not in itself a European ban or a final listing. France’s interior minister Laurent Nuñez told The National on 4 May that an EU listing was “impossible to implement” and that Paris prefers to act “on a case-by-case basis.” He has not been superseded. The comparable French National Assembly resolution calling for an EU listing passed 157 to 101.

Assessment: The gap between a parliamentary majority and a Council listing is where this file has lived for two years, and nothing on 8 October narrowed it. The test is procedural and dull: does any member state table a listing proposal, and does the Commission respond formally. Until then the resolution is a mandate to argue, not an instrument. Distrust two things circulating this week. The Middle East Forum’s claim, republished by Coptic Solidarity on 14 October, that Parliament “expels FEMYSO” is advocacy framing unsupported by the vote record. And the figure of ten European countries banning the Brotherhood, pushed by state-aligned Egyptian media, matches nothing verifiable.