Europe’s Brotherhood resolution asked capitals for evidence; no capital has publicly supplied any

Resolution P10_TA(2026)0342, drafted by the European People’s Party and authored by French MEP Céline Imart, passed on 8 October with 381 in favour, 167 against and 15 abstentions — figures that match across the Jerusalem Post, Il Foglio, EU Reporter, Middle East Forum and the Brotherhood-sympathetic Arabi21. The National described a ten-page text that asks the Commission for a “comprehensive overview” of EU funds paid to entities suspected of Brotherhood links, including amounts and the “failure of control” that permitted the awards. Brussels Signal framed the operative demand the same way: MEPs asked national capitals to hand over evidence that would let the Council consider listings. The resolution is non-binding. It freezes no assets and names no entity. “Europe must stop funding its enemies with taxpayers' money,” Imart said, in remarks carried by the European Jewish Press.

Fifteen days on, The Files has found no member state publicly transmitting evidence to the Council and no Commission response on the funding audit. What the window did produce was commentary. Al Khaleej in Sharjah argued on 18 October that the decision neither designates the whole organisation nor automatically freezes assets, but opens a door to coordinated action. Umberto Minopoli, writing in Il Foglio’s English edition on 22 October, pointed to German descriptions of a network of mosques, centres and associations while conceding the membership figure is modest. Opposition is also on the record: a joint civil-society statement hosted by FEMYSO on 8 October said the resolution amounts to “de-platforming civil society organisations,” and the academic Farid Hafez, a declared critic of this policy current, called the EPP motion a “witch-hunt” in EUobserver two days before the vote.

Assessment: Read the European file the way you should read the American one: by machinery, not by volume. France’s National Assembly passed a non-binding resolution in January, the Dutch Tweede Kamer a non-binding motion in March, Vienna announced constitutional legislation in September and has produced a draft and nothing since. Each is a request upward or inward; none creates a listing. The EU terrorist list is a Council instrument requiring national competent-authority decisions, which is precisely what Parliament asked capitals to generate. Silence from twenty-seven governments fifteen days after a 381-vote majority suggests the evidentiary files either do not exist in listable form or that no capital wants to be first. Any copy saying Europe “banned” the Brotherhood this month is simply wrong. Watch for the first transmitted dossier; the absence of one is the current state of the policy.