Overview
- Top trade lawmakers met behind closed doors and failed to agree on whether to put the Turnberry agreement to a committee vote.
- Bernd Lange said lead negotiators will reconvene on Feb. 4 to decide next steps ahead of the trade committee’s Feb. 23–24 session.
- Political groups split over timing, with the EPP and right-leaning parties urging a quick restart while Socialists, Renew and Greens press for tougher conditions.
- A senior Commission trade official told MEPs the executive aims to accelerate implementation following Trump's partial walkback on Greenland-related threats.
- Lawmakers weighed invoking the Anti-Coercion Instrument’s investigative stage but no majority backed it, and several MEPs warn the deal’s tariff cuts remain lopsided and final approval would still take weeks after any restart.