European Council on Foreign Relations

ECFR

ECFR is the first pan-European think-tank.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Nathalie Loiseau (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

18 Nov 2025 · Bouclier démocratique européen

Meeting with Nathalie Loiseau (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Oct 2025 · Situation en Ukraine

Meeting with Gert Jan Koopman (Director-General Enlargement and Eastern Neighbourhood)

17 Oct 2025 · Communication on enlargement in Member States

Meeting with Mark Nicklas (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

9 Sept 2025 · Foreign investments in the Electric Vehicle value chain in North Africa

Meeting with Cristina Miranda Gozalvez (Head of Unit Trade)

19 Jun 2025 · Meeting at the request of ECFR (think-tank, HQ at Berlin)

Meeting with Gert Jan Koopman (Director-General Enlargement and Eastern Neighbourhood)

19 Jun 2025 · Enlargement, Moldova

Meeting with Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Jun 2025 · Borris House Festival of Ideas

Meeting with Pierre-Romain Thionnet (Member of the European Parliament)

22 May 2025 · Affaires étrangères

Meeting with Andrius Kubilius (Commissioner) and

25 Mar 2025 · Roundtable with Think Tanks

Meeting with Gert Jan Koopman (Director-General Enlargement and Eastern Neighbourhood)

21 Mar 2025 · Enlargement, Moldova

Meeting with Eva Schultz (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Roxana Mînzatu)

20 Mar 2025 · Clean industrial transformations and social cohesion

Meeting with Virginijus Sinkevičius (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Mar 2025 · ECFR’s Wartime Economy Task Force

Meeting with Rasa Juknevičienė (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Mar 2025 · ECFR Council Policy Emergency weekly briefing

Meeting with Lora Borissova (Cabinet of Commissioner Hadja Lahbib) and European Middle East Project vzw

12 Mar 2025 · - Middle East - North Africa.

Meeting with Christine O'Dwyer (Cabinet of High Representative/ Vice-President Kaja Kallas) and European Middle East Project vzw

3 Mar 2025 · Developments in the Middle East

Meeting with Michael Karnitschnig (null Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf) and European Middle East Project vzw

3 Mar 2025 · Next steps on Gaza, political and security dynamics in the West Bank, US and Arab countries’ positioning

Meeting with Dārta Tentere (Cabinet of Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič)

11 Feb 2025 · Economic Security

Meeting with Ivo Belet (Cabinet of Commissioner Dubravka Šuica) and European Middle East Project vzw

5 Feb 2025 · Current developments in the Middle East & EU policies

Meeting with Nicolás Pascual De La Parte (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Jan 2025 · Briefing on ECFR’s new global public opinion on foreign affairs

Meeting with Dana Spinant (Director-General Communication)

16 Jan 2025 · Communication and engagement about current EU priorities

Meeting with Antti Karhunen (Director Directorate-General for International Partnerships) and

15 Jan 2025 · Exchange of views on INTPA priorities for 2025 on investment and trade. Discussions on the Global Gateway strategy, the next MFF, Team Europe approach and Clean Trade and Investment Partnerships.

Meeting with Peter Wagner (Director Foreign Policy Instruments)

4 Dec 2024 · Meeting with ECFR visiting fellow

Meeting with Sara Matthieu (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Oct 2024 · Discussion on industrial policy

Meeting with Abir Al-Sahlani (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Oct 2024 · Discrimination in the EU

Meeting with Reinier Van Lanschot (Member of the European Parliament) and European Cultural Foundation

2 Oct 2024 · EU identities, cultures and (de)polarisation

Meeting with Sara Matthieu (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Sept 2024 · Roundtable on the future of EU green industrial policy

Meeting with Gordan Bosanac (Member of the European Parliament) and European Middle East Project vzw

23 Jul 2024 · Briefing on the situation in Israel and Palestine

Meeting with Klára Dobrev (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Jul 2024 · Annual Council Meeting

Meeting with Klára Dobrev (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Jul 2024 · Annual Council Meeting

Meeting with Sabine Weyand (Director-General Trade)

2 Jul 2024 · "Economic security 2.0: what is the EU's next geoeconomics game plan?" (webinar).

Meeting with Klára Dobrev (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Jun 2024 · The new EU foreign policy mandate

Meeting with Nathalie Loiseau (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Jun 2024 · 10e législature

Meeting with Klára Dobrev (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Jun 2024 · European Council on Foreign Relations Annual Council Meeting 2024

Meeting with Klára Dobrev (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Jun 2024 · European Council on Foreign Relations Annual Council Meeting 2024

Meeting with César Luena (Member of the European Parliament)

18 Apr 2024 · Analysis of Data on European Elections 2024

Meeting with Hannah Neumann (Member of the European Parliament)

31 Jan 2024 · Annual meeting of German members

Meeting with Arnaud Danjean (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Jan 2024 · Relations UE-Royaume Uni

Meeting with Bjoern Seibert (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen) and

27 Nov 2023 · High-Level Working Dinner Preparation of the EU-China Summit

Meeting with Helmut Scholz (Member of the European Parliament) and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

24 Nov 2023 · Geoeconomic competition

Meeting with Reinhard Bütikofer (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Oct 2023 · Exchange of views

Meeting with Kevin Keary (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)

3 Jul 2023 · Think Tank Outreach, European Economic Security Strategy

Meeting with Josep Borrell Fontelles (High Representative)

9 Jun 2023 · Lunch discussion organised by ECFR office in Madrid on EU Security and defence issues

Meeting with Kathleen Van Brempt (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Jun 2023 · ECFR Annual Council Meeting

Meeting with Bjoern Seibert (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen) and

28 Feb 2023 · Working dinner - EU's agenda in 2023

Meeting with Radosław Sikorski (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Dec 2022 · Panel debate: "From surviving to thriving: How Europe should support Ukraine in the long war against Russia"

Meeting with Koen Doens (Director-General Directorate-General for International Partnerships)

11 Oct 2022 · Europe Africa Business Forum; Global Gateway Business Advisory Group; Critical Raw Materials.

Meeting with Ismail Ertug (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Jul 2022 · China

Meeting with Dimitri Lorenzani (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

22 Jun 2022 · Discussion on strategic foresight

Meeting with Radosław Sikorski (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Jun 2022 · Panel debate: "Belarus after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: The challenge of dual political identity”

Meeting with Koen Doens (Director-General Directorate-General for International Partnerships)

25 Feb 2022 · Global Gateway, Green Deal, Africa

Meeting with Alejandro Cainzos (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

16 Dec 2021 · EU external digital policy

Meeting with Sabine Weyand (Director-General Trade)

9 Dec 2021 · A New Normal: Europe, China and the Future of Global Trade.

Meeting with Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President)

15 Oct 2021 · External digital policy

Meeting with Sandra Bartelt (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen)

14 Oct 2021 · Courtesy visit

Meeting with Arto Virtanen (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen), Sandra Bartelt (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen)

1 Oct 2021 · ECFR Introducttion, Global Gateway and European Green Deal

Meeting with Anthony Agotha (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Olivia Gippner (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

18 Jun 2021 · ECFR briefing on European voter polling post-covid-19: global outlook

Meeting with Radosław Sikorski (Member of the European Parliament)

1 Jun 2021 · EU defence: looking for a Strategic Compass

Meeting with Radosław Sikorski (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Mar 2021 · Panel debate: "academy session on the Eastern Partnership"

Meeting with Anthony Whelan (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Bjoern Seibert (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Fernando Sampedro Marcos (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Mary Veronica Tovsak Pleterski (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Nicole Dewandre (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Olivier Smith (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Per Haugaard (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Sonia Vila Nunez (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Valeria Miceli (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen) and

31 Jul 2020 · High-Level Roundtable Discussion on: Resilience: How to better protect, prepare and transform the European Union? - [Via Webex]

Meeting with Anthony Whelan (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Bjoern Seibert (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Brenda Furniere (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Fernando Sampedro Marcos (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Nicole Dewandre (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Olivier Smith (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Per Haugaard (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Peteris Ustubs (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Sonia Vila Nunez (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Valeria Miceli (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen) and

28 Jul 2020 · High-Level Roundtable Discussion on The State of the Union in 2020 and EU's Global Engagement in a Covid-19 world - [Via Webex]

Meeting with Radosław Sikorski (Member of the European Parliament)

29 Jun 2020 · Panel debate: "Saving Democracy in Europe: Where are EU’s red lines?"

Meeting with Radosław Sikorski (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Jun 2020 · Eastern Partnership

Meeting with Radosław Sikorski (Member of the European Parliament)

6 May 2020 · ECFR QUARANTIMES: Thinking big in times of COVID-19

Meeting with Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President)

29 Apr 2020 · To discuss how to unlock Europe’s potential to act boldly and confidently in the digital age

Meeting with Radosław Sikorski (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Apr 2020 · ECFR QUARANTIMES: Thinking big in times of COVID-19

Meeting with Maud Arnould (Cabinet of High Representative Josep Borrell Fontelles)

5 Feb 2020 · EU-Africa relations

Meeting with Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President)

6 Dec 2019 · Meeting with director European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)

Meeting with Michel Barnier (Head of Task Force Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom) and

6 Nov 2017 · Meeting with the Task Force for the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom under Article 50 TEU

Meeting with Johannes Noack (Cabinet of Vice-President Johannes Hahn), Michael Doczy (Cabinet of Vice-President Johannes Hahn)

11 Oct 2017 · Turkey

Meeting with Edward Bannerman (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

20 Jul 2017 · EU-China relations

Meeting with Miguel Ceballos Baron (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström)

19 Jul 2017 · EU-China relations

Meeting with Clara Martinez Alberola (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker), Martin Selmayr (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker) and

8 Sept 2016 · State of the Union 2016

Meeting with Miguel Ceballos Baron (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström)

23 May 2016 · trade relations with China

Meeting with Edward Bannerman (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

23 May 2016 · EU-China relations

Meeting with Léon Delvaux (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker)

26 Apr 2016 · Market Economy Status for China

Meeting with Alice Richard (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

17 Mar 2016 · Invitation to attend ECFR's annual Council meeting

Meeting with Zacharias Giakoumis (Cabinet of Commissioner Christos Stylianides)

17 Mar 2016 · exchange of views

Meeting with Alice Richard (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

8 Dec 2015 · External Action of the EU

Meeting with Oliver Rentschler (Cabinet of High Representative / Vice-President Federica Mogherini)

6 Nov 2015 · Meeting focused on the organization's latest reports.

Meeting with Alice Richard (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

1 Jul 2015 · EU foreign policy

Meeting with Ann Mettler (Director-General Inspire, Debate, Engage and Accelerate Action)

31 Mar 2015 · Meeting with Mr Nick Witney

Meeting with Edward Bannerman (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

3 Feb 2015 · Priorities of the new commission

Meeting with Denzil Davidson (Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill)

15 Jan 2015 · Financial Services Policy