EU lobbying in numbers

102,583 lobby meetings have been declared by current Members of the European Parliament across the 2016-2026 record - 49.8% of eligible counterpart entries carry a declared EU Transparency Register link. This page is regenerated from the full dataset every day; cite it as "MEP of the week" and link this page.

The most-met organisations across the 2016-2026 record (current MEPs)

The biggest declared lobbying budgets

Spend / year is the organisation's own estimate of what it spends a year on lobbying the EU institutions, self-declared to the Transparency Register (LobbyFacts-processed); many active organisations declare no figure.

Where to dig deeper

• Every MEP's record, by country
• Organisation profiles and sector breakdowns
• Political group comparisons
• The weekly editions archive
• Download the dataset (CC BY 4.0)