MEP of the week

Lobby organisation

Alibaba Group

Business / industry · Technology & digital also Consumer & retail · HQ: Singapore · Transparency Register entry

As of 9 September 2026, Alibaba Group appears in 23 declared MEP meetings (18 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.

23
declared meetings
with current MEPs
18
MEPs met
€700,000/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
2.5
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“This registration captures the activities of Alibaba Group and its subsidiaries/affiliate entities in Europe. Currently, these business units operate in Europe: Tmall, Tmall Global, Alibaba.com, AliExpress, Trendyol, Miravia, Alibaba Cloud, Cainiao, Fliggy and Lingxi Games. Collectively, our remit is to: - Build the infrastructure of e-commerce - Enable millions of commercial and social interactions every day - Empower our customers…”

Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 23 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

European People's Party1148%
Greens/EFA522%
Socialists & Democrats522%
European Conservatives & Reformists14%
Renew Europe14%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2021–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (7 in 2025).

2021
5
2022
1
2023
2
2024
5
2025
7
2026
3

Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.

The MEPs they meet most

Salvatore de Meo
5 meetings · EPP
Dirk Gotink
2 meetings · EPP
Brando Benifei
1 meeting · S&D
Alexandra Geese
1 meeting · Greens/EFA
Lukas Mandl
1 meeting · EPP

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
15 Jul 2026Dirk GotinkUnion Customs Code
11 May 2026Markéta GregorováCybersecurity Act 2 (CSA2) meeting
1 Apr 2026Piotr MüllerCross-border e-commerce with the EU market
25 Sep 2025Nicola ZingarettiDigital Service Act
25 Sep 2025Brando BenifeiArtificial Intelligence
24 Sep 2025Michael McNamaraEU AI policy
16 Jul 2025Salvatore de MeoE-commerce
9 Jul 2025Dirk GotinkEU customs legislation; e-commerce
9 Jul 2025Pablo Arias EcheverríaEuropean legislation on e-commerce platforms
3 Mar 2025Salvatore de MeoE-commerce
22 Oct 2024Daniel AttardPriorities for Ali Baba
3 Oct 2024Saskia BricmontCode douanier
3 Oct 2024Laura Ballarín CerezaPriorities for the mandate 2024-2029
17 Sep 2024Lukas MandlCompetitiveness and EU-China relations
29 Jan 2024Jörgen WarbornSmåföretagar- och handelsfrågor (STAFF LEVEL)

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