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Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

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ECFR organized activities to provide meeting space for EU decisionmakers to share ideas for common action and to promote informed debate on Europe’s role in the world. 
AFRICA: Koen Doens (INTPA) & Joaquim Nunes de Almeida (GROW) attended the Forum on Strategic Raw Materials (15 May). Rita Laranjinha (EEAS) attended the conference on Europe & Africa in Berlin (13 Jun). The June Strategy Group had participation of Daniel Redondo (EEAS) & Manon Barthod (Cabinet President). Luca Miehe (EEAS) joined webinar on UAE-Africa energy/climate relations (28 Nov), and EU-Namibia partnership hybrid meeting (29 Nov) was attended by Cecile Billaux (INTPA). ASIA: the EU-China Policy was discussed with MEPs Iratxe Garcia Perez, Uo Bullmann, Marek Belka, Pedro Marques, Bernd Lange & Tonino Picula (24 Mar). The discussion on US Allies & Taiwan was attended by MEP Reinhard Bütikofer (2 May). On 16 Nov ECFR & MERICS EU- China Conference had Von der Leyen and Niclas Kvarnström (EEAS) & Žaneta Vegnere (Cabinet Dombrovskis). Janka Oertel attended dinner ahead of the EU-China Summit with Von der Leyen & Björn Seibert (Cabinet President). EUROPEAN POWER: paper on EU climate diplomacy was discussed with Anna Strzaska (EEAS) on 4 May. The European Sentiment Compass 2023 was discussed with Vice-President Věra Jourová (23 May). The meeting on Europe’s climate & energy sovereignty (28 Sept) was attended by Pierre Schellekens (ENER). Michael Curtis, EU Deputy Ambassador to the US, attended the Annual Chimney Stack dinner of US Programme Workshop (2 Nov). MENA: Iran Strategy Group (24-25 Jan) was attended by Florin Nita & Bruno Scholl (EEAS). Carl Hallergard (EEAS), Gabriel Munueral Vinals & Sara Sadik (EU Delegation to Yemen) joined the Yemen Strategy Group (16-17 Mar). Enrique Mora, Florin Nita & Bruno Scholl (EEAS) attended the Saudi-Iran De-escalation Track 1.5 (22-23 May) North Africa Strategy Group in Rome (19-21 Sept) was attended by Rosamaria Gili (EEAS) who also attended the webinar on Iraq (3 Oct). WIDER EUROPE: On 30 Jan, the power audit of EU-Russia relations was discussed with Steven Everts, Alexandros Yannis (EEAS), Mara Steinberga (Cabinet President), Miroslav Lajčák, , Hervé Delphin (EEAS). ECFR & German Federal Foreign Office workshop was attended by Miroslav Lajcak (27-28 Mar). The Western Balkans Strategy Group (15-16 May) had the participation of Helene Holm-Pedersen (Council of the EU) and Miroslav Lajčák (27 Nov). On 19-20 Jun, Michael Siebert (EEAS) joined seminar on Europe's Russia policy in Warsaw. Lajčák & MEP Reinhard Bütikofer attended European Forum Alpbach dinner (26 Aug). Amb Vassilis Maragos attended the breakfast of ECFR Study Trip to Armenia (9-12 Oct). MEPs Andrius Kubilius, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Bernard Guetta & Ulla Hakanen (EEAS) joined the workshop on Russian opposition (17-18 Oct). Lajčák attended the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue process in Berlin (29-30) Nov.
ECFR’s ANNUAL COUNCIL MEETING had MEP Nathalie Loiseau & Katarína Mathernová (NEAR) as speakers (7-8 Jun). Some ECFR papers were discussed with HRVP Josep Borrell (20 Feb), Dombrovskis Cabinet (3 Jul) & Dennis Redonnet (TRADE) on 23 June, and Alexandros Yannis & Amb. Herve Delphin (EEAS) on 20 Nov.
ECFR MADRID: HRVP Josep Borrell attended lunch on the contribution of Spanish defence industry to EU’s strategic autonomy (9 Jun). Alejandro Caínzos (Vestager’s Cabinet) attended virtual workshop on transatlantic tech relations & the TTC (5 Oct). ECFR ROME organized the Global Gateway Africa (22-23 May) attended by Domenico Rosa (INTPA) & Nicola Bellomo (EEAS). ECFR WARSAW organized the Warsaw European Conversation and met Věra Jourová (31 May) and discussed Polish elections (20 Sept) with MEP Reinhard Bütikofer & Jakub Boratyński (GROW), with Piotr Rydzykowski (TRADE), Gert Jan Koopman (NEAR) & MEP Jan Olbyrcht (21 Sept).

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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.

• Date	02 Jul 2024	Location	Virtual
  Subject	"Economic security 2.0: what is the EU's next geoeconomics game plan?" (webinar).
  DG	Trade
  Attending	Sabine Weyand (Director-General)

• Date	27 Nov 2023	Location	BERLAYMONT, Brussels
  Subject	High-Level Working Dinner Preparation of the EU-China Summit
  Cabinet	Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen
  Portfolio	President
  Attending	Bjoern Seibert (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Rhodium Group, LLC

• Date	03 Jul 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Think Tank Outreach, European Economic Security Strategy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	An Economy that Works for People
  Attending	Kevin Keary (Cabinet member)

• Date	09 Jun 2023	Location	Madrid, Spain
  Subject	Lunch discussion organised by ECFR office in Madrid on EU Security and defence issues
  Cabinet	Cabinet of High Representative Josep Borrell Fontelles
  Portfolio	High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the Commission
  Attending	Josep Borrell Fontelles (High Representative)

• Date	28 Feb 2023	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Working dinner - EU's agenda in 2023
  Cabinet	Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen
  Portfolio	President
  Attending	Bjoern Seibert (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Migration Policy Institute Europe

• Date	11 Oct 2022	Location	online
  Subject	Europe Africa Business Forum; Global Gateway Business Advisory Group; Critical Raw Materials.
  DG	Directorate-General for International Partnerships
  Attending	Koen Doens (Director-General)

• Date	22 Jun 2022	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Discussion on strategic foresight
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič
  Portfolio	Energy Union
  Attending	Dimitri Lorenzani (Cabinet member)

• Date	22 Jun 2022	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Discussion on strategic foresight
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič
  Portfolio	Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight
  Attending	Dimitri Lorenzani (Cabinet member)

• Date	25 Feb 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Global Gateway, Green Deal, Africa
  DG	Directorate-General for International Partnerships
  Attending	Koen Doens (Director-General)

• Date	16 Dec 2021	Location	Online
  Subject	EU external digital policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Alejandro Cainzos (Cabinet member)

• Date	09 Dec 2021	Location	Berlin
  Subject	A New Normal: Europe, China and the Future of Global Trade.
  DG	Trade
  Attending	Sabine Weyand (Director-General)

• Date	15 Oct 2021	Location	Brussels
  Subject	External digital policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President)

• Date	14 Oct 2021	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Courtesy visit
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
  Portfolio	International Partnerships
  Attending	Sandra Bartelt (Cabinet member)

• Date	01 Oct 2021	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	ECFR Introducttion, Global Gateway and European Green Deal
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
  Portfolio	International Partnerships
  Attending	Arto Virtanen (Cabinet member) Sandra Bartelt (Cabinet member)

• Date	18 Jun 2021	Location	online
  Subject	ECFR briefing on European voter polling post-covid-19: global outlook
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Olivia Gippner (Cabinet member) Anthony Agotha (Cabinet member)

• Date	31 Jul 2020	Location	Brussels - Belgium
  Subject	High-Level Roundtable Discussion on: Resilience: How to better protect, prepare and transform the European Union? - [Via Webex]
  Cabinet	Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen
  Portfolio	President
  Attending	Mary Veronica Tovsak Pleterski (Cabinet member) Per Haugaard (Cabinet member) Valeria Miceli (Cabinet member) Olivier Smith (Cabinet member) Fernando Sampedro Marcos (Cabinet member) Bjoern Seibert (Cabinet member) Nicole Dewandre (Cabinet member) Sonia Vila Nunez (Cabinet member) Anthony Whelan (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Round Table for Industry Juridical Observatory on Digital Innovation European Society for Prevention Research The Club of Rome Collective Leadership Institute gGmbH

• Date	28 Jul 2020	Location	Brussels - Belgium
  Subject	High-Level Roundtable Discussion on The State of the Union in 2020 and EU's Global Engagement in a Covid-19 world - [Via Webex]
  Cabinet	Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen
  Portfolio	President
  Attending	Peteris Ustubs (Cabinet member) Bjoern Seibert (Cabinet member) Per Haugaard (Cabinet member) Sonia Vila Nunez (Cabinet member) Nicole Dewandre (Cabinet member) Valeria Miceli (Cabinet member) Olivier Smith (Cabinet member) Brenda Furniere (Cabinet member) Anthony Whelan (Cabinet member) Fernando Sampedro Marcos (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	The Wallenberg Foundations AB the Clingendael Institute Mercator Institute for China Studies Carnegie Europe The German Marshall Fund of the United States - The Transatlantic Foundation Real Instituto Elcano GLOBSEC Egmont Institute Vrije Universiteit Brussel

• Date	29 Apr 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	To discuss how to unlock Europe’s potential to act boldly and confidently in the digital age
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President)

• Date	05 Feb 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EU-Africa relations
  Cabinet	Cabinet of High Representative Josep Borrell Fontelles
  Portfolio	High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the Commission
  Attending	Maud Arnould (Cabinet member)

• Date	06 Dec 2019	Location	Copenhagen
  Subject	Meeting with director European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President)

• Date	06 Nov 2017	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Meeting with the Task Force for the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom under Article 50 TEU
  DG	Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom
  Attending	Michel Barnier (Head of Task Force)
  Other Lobbyists	Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’

• Date	11 Oct 2017	Location	bruxelles
  Subject	Turkey
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Johannes Hahn
  Portfolio	European Neighbourhood Policy & Enlargement Negotiations
  Attending	Michael Doczy (Cabinet member) Johannes Noack (Cabinet member)

• Date	20 Jul 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EU-China relations
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen
  Portfolio	Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness
  Attending	Edward Bannerman (Cabinet member)

• Date	19 Jul 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EU-China relations
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström
  Portfolio	Trade
  Attending	Miguel Ceballos Baron (Cabinet member)

• Date	08 Sep 2016	Location	Brussels Belgium
  Subject	State of the Union 2016
  Cabinet	Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker
  Portfolio	President
  Attending	Clara Martinez Alberola (Cabinet member) Martin Selmayr (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Bruegel Egmont Institute

• Date	23 May 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	trade relations with China
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström
  Portfolio	Trade
  Attending	Miguel Ceballos Baron (Cabinet member)

• Date	23 May 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EU-China relations
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen
  Portfolio	Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness
  Attending	Edward Bannerman (Cabinet member)

• Date	26 Apr 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Market Economy Status for China
  Cabinet	Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker
  Portfolio	President
  Attending	Leon Delvaux (Cabinet member)

• Date	17 Mar 2016	Location	Berlaymont
  Subject	exchange of views
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Christos Stylianides
  Portfolio	Humanitarian Aid & Crisis Management
  Attending	Zacharias Giakoumis (Cabinet member)

• Date	17 Mar 2016	Location	Berlaymont
  Subject	Invitation to attend ECFR's annual Council meeting
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Alice Richard (Cabinet member)

• Date	08 Dec 2015	Location	Bruxelles
  Subject	External Action of the EU
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Alice Richard (Cabinet member)

• Date	06 Nov 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Meeting focused on the organization's latest reports.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of High Representative / Vice-President Federica Mogherini
  Portfolio	Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
  Attending	Oliver Rentschler (Cabinet member)

• Date	01 Jul 2015	Location	Berlaymont
  Subject	EU foreign policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Alice Richard (Cabinet member)

• Date	31 Mar 2015	Location	Berlaymont
  Subject	Meeting with Mr Nick Witney
  DG	Inspire, Debate, Engage and Accelerate Action
  Attending	Ann Mettler (Director-General)

• Date	03 Feb 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Priorities of the new commission
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen
  Portfolio	Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness
  Attending	Edward Bannerman (Cabinet member)

• Date	15 Jan 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Financial Services Policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill
  Portfolio	Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Denzil Davidson (Cabinet member)