Lobby organisation
ARTICLE 19
NGO or non-profit · Human rights & humanitarian · HQ: United Kingdom · Transparency Register entry
As of 7 November 2026, ARTICLE 19 appears in 25 declared MEP meetings (10 different MEPs), most often with Greens/EFA.
In their own words
“Founded in 1987, ARTICLE 19 is an international organization defending freedom of expression and information around the world. We work for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination.”
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“ARTICLE 19 works on five interacting areas: civic space, digital, media, protection, and transparency, all of which are underpinned by a focus on equality, and our local to global theory of change. More information about our organisation can be found here: https://www.article19.org/about-us/ […]”
Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing - the text on file breaks off mid-sentence where marked […].
Who they meet, and when
Which groups they meet
Share of this organisation's 25 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.
Meetings by year
Declared meetings per calendar year, 2020–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (9 in 2025). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.
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
The 15 most recent declared meetings
| Date | MEP | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Sep 2026 | Reinier van Lanschot | Meeting with Article 19 on CADA |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Kim van Sparrentak | Democracy |
| 3 Mar 2026 | Sandro Ruotolo | Interest group on spyware meeting |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Alexandra Geese | Democratic Tech Alliance |
| 16 Oct 2025 | Alexandra Geese | Event: High-Level Democracy Conference |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Alexandra Geese | Event: The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI |
| 21 May 2025 | Alexandra Geese | Event: CPDP conference |
| 14 May 2025 | Birgit Sippel | Democratic Tech Alliance |
| 14 May 2025 | Alexandra Geese | Event: Democratic Tech Alliance |
| 15 Apr 2025 | Katarina Barley | Digitalpolitik |
| 19 Feb 2025 | Birgit Sippel | Guidelines for banned AI use cases and the definition of AI (Staff-level) |
| 29 Jan 2025 | Alexandra Geese | Roundtable: Taming Big Tech |
| 26 Sep 2024 | Alexandra Geese | Digital Rights policy |
| 26 Sep 2024 | Leila Chaibi | Speaker at an event on digital policies in the EU |
| 15 Apr 2024 | René Repasi | Anti-Monopoly Conference |
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