Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.75 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
3
High-level Commission meetings
18
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Civil Society Europe (CSE)
EU Transparency Register
520775919740-63 First registered on 30 Nov 2015
Goals / Remit
Civil Society Europe is the coordination of civil society organisations (CSOs) at the EU level. We are currently composed of 22 platforms and networks of CSOs among the most representative CSOs active at EU level in a wide variety of areas, such as civic participation, social rights, environmental rights, transparency, volunteering, youth, the fight against racism, anti-poverty, and the rights of persons with disabilities. CSE works towards regenerating the European project around the shared values of equality, solidarity, inclusiveness and democracy. Through its work, CSE contributes to EU and national institutions’ recognition of the essential role and value of independent and plural CSOs in building and nurturing a democratic society based on fundamental rights. We work to create the conditions for the development of a strong and independent civil society voice, an effective, open, and structured civil dialogue at EU level, and a thriving and enabling civic space across the Union.
Main EU files targeted
Civil Society Europe (CSE) works towards the promotion and implementation of structured civil dialogue at EU level. In this context, CSE follows: citizenship issues; the implementation and promotion of fundamental rights and the rule of law, in particular as they relate to civic space; issues that are of pertinence to the implementation of Article 11 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and the recognition and role of civil society organisations, for instance in the review or definition of the EU agenda; and legislative proposals or policies such as the European Democracy Action Plan, the Defence of Democracy Package, the Multiannual Financial Framework, financial rules and EU funding, the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Package, the Transparency Register, the follow-up of the Conference on the Future of Europe (including developments regarding a possible Convention to revise the EU Treaties), the European Recovery Package, the Ukraine Facility, and the proposal for a European Cross-Border Association Statute. CSE is also coordinating a joint “Civil Society for EU” campaign in the framework of the 2024 European Parliament elections, and is involved in a Horizon 2020 project titled “Enlightened trust in governance” (EnTrust).
Address
Head Office
Rue du Congrès 13
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue du Congrès 13
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 1 50% 1 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 03 Dec 2024
Name Start date End Date Carlotta Besozzi 07 Oct 2024 06 Oct 2025 Matteo VESPA 07 Oct 2024 06 Oct 2025 Hamyl Ali 03 Oct 2024 02 Oct 2025 Matteo VESPA 10 Oct 2023 04 Oct 2024 Carlotta Besozzi 15 Sep 2023 14 Sep 2024 Nastassia MAES 05 Oct 2023 04 Oct 2024 Nastassia MAES 10 Sep 2022 09 Sep 2023 Carlotta Besozzi 02 Sep 2022 02 Sep 2023 Carlotta Besozzi 22 Jun 2019 01 Jul 2020 Carlotta Besozzi 08 May 2018 01 Jun 2019 Carlotta Besozzi 12 May 2017 26 Apr 2018 Carlotta Besozzi 28 Apr 2016 28 Apr 2017 Complementary Information
We have 5 employed persons in our team and 4 dedicate part of their time to the activities covered by the register
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
Observer of SDG Watch Europe (https://www.sdgwatcheurope.org/)
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
292,750€
Major funding types in closed year
EU funding, Grants, Member's contributions
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution EACEA 126,151€ Contribution HORIZON 2020 129,291€ Contribution OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATION 31,545€ Grant CERV 126,151€ Other financial info
With regard to section A, since some contributions in the closed financial year do not exceed 10% of the total budget, the final accounts do not correspond to the figures cited above.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
CSE contributes to EU policy discussions through its four Working Groups (which involve CSE members and other relevant civil society partners): Civic Space and Fundamental Rights, Civil Society State of the Union (which monitors the follow-up of the Conference on the Future of Europe/CoFoE), Funding (for civil society), and Communication. CSE also coordinates a task force on the National Recovery and Resilience Plans, a task force on the Defence of Democracy Package, and a coalition on European Cross-Border Associations.
Civic space:
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CSE-contribution-to-EC-Citizenship-Report-2023.pdf
http://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Recommendations-European-Convening-on-civic-space-1.pdf
Rule of law:
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Joint-Civil-Society-Contribution-to-the-2023-Annual-Rule-of-Law-Report.pdf
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CSE-guidance-note-on-RoL-report-18.12.2023.pdf
Civil dialogue:
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Letter-to-Commissioners-Hahn-Jourova-on-disclosure-of-EC-civil-servants.pdf
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/civil-society-europe-analysis-reveals-significant-differences-in-the-level-of-transparency-of-the-permanent-representations-of-member-states-to-the-eu/
Democracy:
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CSE-Observations-on-EU-law-compatibility-DoD-Directive.pdf
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/JOINT-RESPONSE-DoD-Questionnaire.pdf
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/230-Civil-Society-Organisations-Statement-on-EU-Foreign-Interference-Law-7-2.pdf
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Joint-Civil-Society-Contribution-to-the-Defence-of-Democracy-Package_April.pdf
Follow-up of the CoFoE:
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Civil-Society-State-of-the-Union_2023.pdf
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/open-letter-csos-call-on-meps-to-adopt-the-european-parliaments-proposals-to-amend-the-eu-treaties-and-on-the-european-council-to-convene-a-convention-to-revise-the-treaties/
European Parliament elections in 2024:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UASTO8wj-9-qB7D1RQuT3u4zDGCsPK--/view
EU Recovery Package:
http://civilsocietyeurope.eu/nextgenerationeu-must-involve-all-stakeholders-so-far-it-has-not/
http://civilsocietyeurope.eu/civil-society-the-national-recovery-and-resilience-plans-a-reality-check/
Ukraine Facility and other reconstruction efforts in Ukraine:
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Position-paper-on-Ukraine-and-involvement-of-CSOs-21.12.23.pdf
Anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism:
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2023.10.17-EU-AML-CFT-Package-Comments-on-BO-from-NPO-and-Foundation-sector.pdf
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2023.08.07-EU-AML-NPO-Coalition-Paper-on-Crowdfunding.pdf
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/23.03.15-AML-Package-Comments-from-NPO-and-Foundation-sector.pdf
European Cross-Border Associations:
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Policy-input-on-the-ECBA-Directive.pdf
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Letter-European-Association-Statute-.pdf
EU funding:
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CERV-mid-term-evaluation-CSOs-proposals.docx-2.pdf
Financial regulations:
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/CSOreactiononthesimplificationoftheFinancialRegulations-2.pdf
EnTrust project:
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Report-on-practices-of-enhanced-trust-in-governance.pdf
Other CSE publications:
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CSE-Annual-report-2022-2023-accessible.pdf
https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/civil-society-europe-newsletter/Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
18 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 08 Apr 2024 Location Riga Subject Tech and Russian independent media Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
- Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 19 Feb 2024 Location Brussels Subject Meeting with Prague Civil Society Center about free media hub EAST Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Dec 2023 Location videoconference call Subject Media Freedom EAST hub Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 Nov 2023 Location Brussels Subject Defence of Democracy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Jul 2023 Location videoconference call Subject Defence of Democracy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Jul 2023 Location Brussels Subject Defence of Democracy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
- Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
- Zuzana Dorazilova (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 May 2023 Location Brussels Subject EU Foreign Interference Directive Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Apr 2023 Location Brussels Subject Defence of democracy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
- Joachim Herrmann (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Mar 2023 Location Brussels Subject Defence of democracy package Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 07 Dec 2022 Location Brussels Subject Meeting on Defence of democracy package Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica Portfolio Democracy and Demography Attending - Ingrid Godkin (Cabinet member)
- Toma Sutic (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Jan 2022 Location videoconference Subject Rule of Law Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
- Joachim Herrmann (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Nov 2021 Location VC Subject Rule of Law Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 01 Sep 2020 Location Brussels Subject VTC - Discussion on Europe's Recovery Plan due to COVID-19 Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn Portfolio Budget and Administration Attending - Hanna Jahns (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Jun 2020 Location Brussels Subject High-level debate on trust and governance DG Research and Innovation Attending - Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General)
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Date 06 May 2020 Location videoconference Subject Rule of law, democracy and shrinking space for civil society Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Geneviève Tuts (Cabinet member)
- Joachim Herrmann (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Feb 2020 Location Brussels Subject Conference on the Future of Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica Portfolio Democracy and Demography Attending - Mattia De Grassi (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 May 2018 Location Brussels, BERL Subject discussion on MFF Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Apr 2017 Location Brussels Subject establishment of a EU Mechanism on democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President)