EU Lawmakers Call Meeting on US Trade Deal After Tariff Ruling

Feb. 20, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC

European Union lawmakers will hold an emergency meeting Monday to reassess the bloc’s trade deal with the US following the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down some of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs.

The European Parliament’s trade committee had been expected to vote Tuesday to move forward with the ratification process of the US-EU agreement. EU lawmakers previously froze the ratification process after Trump threatened to annex Greenland.

Bernd Lange
Photographer: Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP/Getty Images

“The decision by the Supreme Court was expected,” Bernd Lange, chairman the trade committee said in a statement to Bloomberg. “The legal basis for the unjustified tariffs was not ...

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