Overview
Lobbying Costs
10,000€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
HERR & SPEER (HuS)
EU Transparency Register
497695824526-10 First registered on 16 Nov 2016
Goals / Remit
We work on the topics of democracy, gender equality and European integration as non-partisan and independent activists and authors (Books, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Washington Post).
Only in the area of youth and rail mobility have we been working as professional consultants with a small mandate (<10.000 Euros) for Eurail in exchange with the EU institutions since summer 2022.Main EU files targeted
Mobility, #FreeInterrail / #DiscoverEU Project, Civic Participation, Sustainable Mobility, Gender Equality, Male Allyship, Youth Participation, Future of European Democracy
Website
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
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
Professional consultancies
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Networking
Affiliation
We are co-founders of the newly founded "Verein für Europäische Eisenbahnreisekultur e.V." together with other writers, activist, railway travellers
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Advances interests of their clients
Closed financial year
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
10,000€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Clients for closed financial year
Clients list
Name Proposal Amount eurail Improvement of the DiscoverEU program, to make it more inclusive, user-friendly, accessible, and future proof 0€ - 10,000€ Clients for current financial year
Clients list
Name eurail Other financial info
Only a fraction of our European work runs on a paid mandate (<10,000), as described above. The majority of our work and our commitment to a united and just Europe is done as independent authors and activists.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
Unofficial groupings
Austausch mit EU-Parlamentarier*innen zu den Themen Transport, Jugend und Tourismus.Communication activities
We developed the #FreeInterrail idea (the idea of free train tickets) as students in 2014 and promoted the program as independent authors and activists. In 2018, the EU Commission launched the first DiscoverEU pilot project. Today, the idea has been implemented as the DiscoverEU program as part of the Erasmus+ family.
As independent authors, we promote a sovereign, democratic, networked and self-confident EU. We do this with books (e.g. EuropeForFuture), newspaper articles (SPIEGEL, DIE ZEIT, Washington Post), policy papers (Charlemagne Prize Academy), readings and events.
As HeForShe Catalysts for UN Women and consultants in the field of gender equality, we give keynotes, trainings and lectures for large international companies, ministries and universities. This work with clients has no overlap with the EU institutions.
In the area of our mandate (<10,000) for Eurail, we support the further development of the DiscoverEU program to make it more inclusive, accessible, simple and future-oriented and have an exchange with EU Institutions.Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
4 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 21 Jun 2021 Location online Subject exchange of ideas on how to strengthen EU health communication DG Communication Attending - Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen (Director-General)
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Date 01 Apr 2019 Location Brussels Subject Future of Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Florentine Hopmeier (Cabinet member)
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Date 29 Nov 2017 Location Brussels Subject Free interrail and Investment plan Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Florentine Hopmeier (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Nov 2016 Location Brussels Subject Free Interrail Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc Portfolio Transport Attending - Jocelyn Fajardo (Cabinet member)