MEP of the week

About this site

MEP of the week is an independent tracker of the lobby meetings that Members of the European Parliament declare under Article 7 of the MEP Code of Conduct. Since November 2023, every MEP is required to publish their meetings with interest representatives. This site collects those declarations daily, links them to the EU Transparency Register, and presents the record in a form anyone can search, compare and verify - 91,711 declared meetings across 719 current MEPs (2019–2026).

The question the site asks is the one the declarations regime leaves open: nothing to declare, or nothing declared? We show what is on the record - and how much of it carries a declared Transparency Register link - without asserting why.

How we work

Source-linked
Every figure links to the official page it came from. Nothing here asks to be trusted.
Versioned
Declarations can be edited or deleted at any time, with no history kept by the Parliament. We freeze the record weekly - if an entry changes, both versions stay.
Non-affiliated
No party, group or interest funds this. We publish the number and the question - never a virtue score.
We firmly believe that in a democracy - whatever party you belong to - transparency is the one thing everyone needs to agree on. It is not a value of the left or the right. It is the floor the rest of the argument stands on.

What this site is not

It is not a scoring of any MEP's integrity, and a low or empty record is not evidence of a rule breach. Roles differ: rapporteurs and committee chairs must declare more; new members start from zero. We publish counts of declarations, with the source linked on every page, and we invite corrections from anyone named - see the corrections policy.

Who runs it

The site is built and edited by Jonathan Kurth as an independent project. It is not affiliated with, funded by, or coordinated with any party, group, campaign or interest organisation. There is no advertising and no paywall; the data is openly licensed. Contact: contact@mepoftheweek.com.

The data, in brief

  • Official EP declaration pages, every member's read every two days on a rotating schedule (the source of record).
  • Transparency International's Integrity Watch EU bulk feed as the historical base.
  • The EU Transparency Register and LobbyFacts.eu for organisation category, sector and declared lobbying spend.

About 48.6% of eligible counterpart entries carry a Transparency Register link in the declaration - the gap is itself a transparency signal we surface rather than hide. Full detail: methodology & data sources.