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APCO Worldwide

Business group · Public affairs & consultancy · HQ: United States · Transparency Register entry

As of 7 November 2026, APCO Worldwide appears in 27 declared MEP meetings (22 different MEPs), most often with Renew Europe.

27
declared meetings
with current MEPs
22
MEPs met
€4.1M/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
62.0
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“APCO Worldwide is a global communication consultancy specializing in building relationships with an organization's key stakeholders. These relationships are critical to the full range of challenges our clients face. We believe an organization's reputation is the culmination of how such challenges are managed.”

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“In the end, this work builds and protects an organization's value and the value of its products and services. It is our goal to be a trusted partner of choice and help create this value – by pushing the boundaries of communication and providing global service, culture by culture.”

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

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 27 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

Renew Europe1037%
European People's Party830%
Socialists & Democrats519%
Greens/EFA311%
The Left14%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2019–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (9 in 2025). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.

2019
1
2020
0
2021
1
2022
0
2023
2
2024
7
2025
9
2026
7

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

Valérie Hayer
3 meetings · Renew
Arba Kokalari
2 meetings · EPP
Olivier Chastel
2 meetings · Renew
Ana Vasconcelos
2 meetings · Renew
Daniel Freund
1 meeting · Greens/EFA

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
1 Sep 2026Reinier van LanschotMeeting with EUDCA on CADA
22 Jul 2026Lukas MandlDigitalisation
26 Mar 2026Olivier ChastelPolitique de santé de l'UE
25 Feb 2026Per ClausenSituation in the European Parliament
17 Feb 2026Kathleen van BremptClean corporate vehicles
26 Jan 2026Ana VasconcelosDigital Omnibus
20 Jan 2026Arba KokalariFinancial Markets Regulation
29 Sep 2025Miriam LexmannCompetitiveness
4 Sep 2025Eero HeinäluomaEU Biotech and Lifesciences Issues
4 Sep 2025Olivier ChastelBiotech Alliance Secretariat - Presentation
6 May 2025Axel VossCopyright and generative AI
6 May 2025Arba KokalariSavings and Investments Union
21 Mar 2025Valérie HayerFinancement de la défense
17 Mar 2025Tobias CremerWhite Paper on European Defence
5 Mar 2025Andreas GlückPlasma

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