ARD-Verbindungsbüro Brüssel

Das ARD-Verbindungsbüro in Brüssel vertritt unter Leitung des Westdeutschen Rundfunks die Interessen der ARD gegenüber den europäischen und weiteren internationalen Institutionen in allen medienpolitischen und -rechtlichen Fragen.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Sabine Verheyen (Member of the European Parliament) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

15 Jul 2025 · Media Policy

Meeting with Nathalie Loiseau (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

14 Jul 2025 · Lutte contre la désinformation

Response to Digital Networks Act

10 Jul 2025

Meeting with Manfred Weber (Member of the European Parliament) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

8 Jul 2025 · Politischer Austausch

Meeting with Sergey Lagodinsky (Member of the European Parliament) and

8 Jul 2025 · Exchange of Views

Meeting with Alexandra Geese (Member of the European Parliament) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

14 May 2025 · Media policies

Meeting with Daniel Freund (Member of the European Parliament) and Rundfunkrat des Westdeutschen Rundfunks

14 May 2025 · Arbeitsfrühstück mit der WDR-Intendantin und dem ZDF-Intendanten

Meeting with Diana Riba I Giner (Member of the European Parliament) and

14 May 2025 · Broadcasting, press and media in the EU

Meeting with Erik Marquardt (Member of the European Parliament) and

14 May 2025 · Stakeholder Roundtable: Broadcasting, Press and Media in the EU

Meeting with Nela Riehl (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair) and

14 May 2025 · Stakeholder Roundtable:The Future of European Broadcasting, Press and Media: How to create a common European Media Space?

Meeting with Alexandra Geese (Member of the European Parliament) and

12 May 2025 · Event: Landesmedienanstal NRW „Safeguarding Freedom – Securing Democracy"

Meeting with Jördis Ferroli (Cabinet of Commissioner Michael McGrath) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

11 Apr 2025 · Brief overview of the participants’ roles and responsibilities, highlighting key areas of expertise and focus for each attendee; Brief discussion of state of play of EMFA implementation.

Meeting with Thomas Schmitz (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen), Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

3 Apr 2025 · EU Media Policy

Meeting with Marco Giorello (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and

19 Mar 2025 · Code of Conduct on Online Advertising – Workshop 4

Meeting with Marco Giorello (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and

6 Mar 2025 · Code of Conduct on Online Advertising – Workshop 2

Meeting with Marco Giorello (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and

4 Mar 2025 · Code of Conduct on Online Advertising – Workshop 1

Meeting with Manuela Ripa (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Dec 2024 · Kultur- und Medienpolitik

Meeting with René Repasi (Member of the European Parliament) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

9 Oct 2024 · Exchange on current EU policy topics in the Legal Affairs Committe /Austausch zu aktuellen europapolitischen Themen im Rechtsausschuss

Meeting with Matthias Ecke (Member of the European Parliament) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

9 Oct 2024 · Rundfunk / Telekommunikationsinfrastruktur

Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

25 Sept 2024 · Media and Connectivity Policy

Meeting with Věra Jourová (Vice-President) and

10 Jun 2024 · Elections and disinformation

Meeting with Pascal Arimont (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

30 Nov 2023 · Geo-blocking of audiovisual media - Solutions for linguistic minorities

Meeting with Sabine Verheyen (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

14 Jun 2023 · European Media Freedom Act

Meeting with Daniel Freund (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion) and EBU-UER (European Broadcasting Union)

14 Jun 2023 · European Media Freedom Act

Meeting with Stelios Kouloglou (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and EBU-UER (European Broadcasting Union)

13 Jun 2023 · European Media Freedom Act and public broadcasters

Meeting with Irena Joveva (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

13 Jun 2023 · European Media Freedom Act

Meeting with Petra Kammerevert (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

2 Jun 2023 · APA - Europäisches Medienfreiheitsgesetz

Meeting with Eleonora Ocello (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

28 Apr 2023 · European Media Freedom Act

Meeting with Ramona Strugariu (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion) and Reporters sans frontières

9 Mar 2023 · European Media Freedom Act

Meeting with Sabine Verheyen (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

8 Mar 2023 · European Media Freedom Act

Meeting with Sabine Verheyen (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

9 Feb 2023 · European Media Freedom Act

Meeting with Alexandra Geese (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Feb 2023 · European Media Freedom Act

Meeting with Petra Kammerevert (Member of the European Parliament) and

1 Feb 2023 · European Media Freedom Act

Meeting with Birgit Sippel (Member of the European Parliament) and

1 Feb 2023 · European Media Freedom Act (Staff-Level)

Meeting with Daniel Freund (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion)

30 Jan 2023 · European Media Freedom Act

Meeting with René Repasi (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Jan 2023 · European Media Freedom Act; Audiovisuelle Mediendienste (AVMD)-Richtlinie

Meeting with Tiemo Wölken (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Jan 2023 · Media Freedom Act, Netzgebühren

Meeting with Arunas Ribokas (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius) and EBU-UER (European Broadcasting Union)

14 Dec 2022 · To discuss the EBU position concerning the upcoming WRC-23 and the future use of the Lower UHF band

Meeting with Petra Kammerevert (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Nov 2022 · EMFA

Meeting with Sabine Verheyen (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

16 Nov 2022 · Media Policy

Meeting with Anthony Whelan (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

7 Sept 2022 · Media Freedom Act

Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

7 Sept 2022 · Media Freedom Act

Meeting with Renate Nikolay (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová)

10 May 2022 · EMFA

Meeting with Petra Kammerevert (Member of the European Parliament) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

27 Apr 2022 · Vorschlag für eine Verordnung über die Transparenz und das Targeting politischer Werbung

Meeting with Anthony Whelan (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

7 Oct 2021 · Media Freedom Act

Meeting with Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

7 Oct 2021 · Media Freedom Act

Meeting with Marie Frenay (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová)

8 Jun 2021 · Media Freedom Act, Rule of Law, Conference on the Future of Europe

Meeting with Daniel Braun (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová), Marie Frenay (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

6 Oct 2020 · European Democracy Action Plan, Digital Services Act

Meeting with Anthony Whelan (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Maria Luisa Cabral (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

6 Oct 2020 · Digital Services Act and European Democracy Action Plan - responsibility of broadcasters for content they distribute, attribition & findability of content, many different types of gatekeeper.

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner) and

5 Sept 2019 · Future funding of Media platforms

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

3 Jul 2019 · EU Digital policy

Meeting with Martin Selmayr (Secretary-General Secretariat-General)

19 Feb 2019 · Current EU policy agenda, Brexit, communication

Meeting with Kevin O'Connell (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

23 Oct 2018 · e-evidence

Meeting with Manuel Mateo Goyet (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel) and EBU-UER (European Broadcasting Union)

19 Apr 2018 · Copyright

Meeting with Manuel Mateo Goyet (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

17 Oct 2017 · Copyright and AVMSD

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

10 Oct 2017 · Copyright, telecom

Meeting with Carl-Christian Buhr (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel), Manuel Mateo Goyet (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

10 Oct 2017 · Cybersecurity

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

8 May 2017 · digital radio

Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip) and

2 Dec 2016 · copyright

Meeting with Markus Schulte (Digital Economy)

11 Oct 2016 · radio spectrum

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

1 Sept 2016 · copyright and digital radio

Meeting with Anna Herold (Digital Economy) and

16 Mar 2016 · copyright

Meeting with Pauline Rouch (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker) and

15 Mar 2016 · Digital Single Market

Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip) and

15 Mar 2016 · Copyright reform

Meeting with Anna Herold (Digital Economy), Marlene Holzner (Digital Economy), Michael Hager (Digital Economy)

17 Dec 2015 · audiovisual policy

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

1 Dec 2015 · AVMSD

Meeting with Johannes Laitenberger (Director-General Competition)

3 Nov 2015 · General exchange of views on European actuality with Mr Ulrich Wilhelm, Intendanz, Bayerischer Rundfunk

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

3 Nov 2015 · Copyright, platforms, audiovisual media services

Meeting with Liene Balta (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

20 Oct 2015 · Copyrights and the Satellite and Cable Directive

Meeting with Pauline Rouch (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

28 Sept 2015 · European Copyright Reform

Meeting with Kevin O'Connell (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

22 Sept 2015 · Copyright

Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

21 Sept 2015 · DSM, copyright, AVMD, platforms

Meeting with Jonathan Michael Hill (Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

13 Jul 2015 · Digital Single Market

Meeting with Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

10 Jul 2015 · copyright modernisation, satellite & cable directive

Meeting with Adrienn Kiraly (Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

30 Apr 2015 · Culture, Creativity, Digital Single Market

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

26 Feb 2015 · AVMD, Copyright

Meeting with Pauline Rouch (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker) and

17 Feb 2015 · Digital Single Market

Meeting with Kamila Kloc (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip), Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

20 Jan 2015 · Copyright

Meeting with Anna Herold (Digital Economy) and ZDF Europabüro Brüssel

16 Jan 2015 · Copyright

Meeting with Michael Hager (Digital Economy)

6 Jan 2015 · Digitale Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft