MEP of the week

Lobby organisation

Banco Santander, S.A.

Company · Finance · HQ: Spain · Transparency Register entry

As of 7 November 2026, Banco Santander, S.A. appears in 87 declared MEP meetings (42 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.

87
declared meetings
with current MEPs
42
MEPs met
€800k/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
2.2
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“Santander is a large international financial group whose primary business is retail banking. Our goal is to offer comprehensive solutions to satisfy the financial needs of our clients, support sustainable economic growth, promote the development of SMEs, and provide excellent value to our shareholders.”

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“To achieve this, we are present in ten core markets, where we operate through autonomous subsidiaries and to whom we provide global business policies and our corporate organisational and technological capacities.”

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

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 87 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

European People's Party3743%
Socialists & Democrats2630%
Patriots for Europe78%
Renew Europe78%
European Conservatives & Reformists45%
Greens/EFA45%
Non-attached11%
The Left11%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2020–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (27 in 2025). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.

2020
5
2021
3
2022
7
2023
12
2024
8
2025
27
2026
25

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

Isabel Benjumea Benjumea
12 meetings · EPP
Jonás Fernández
10 meetings · S&D
Irene Tinagli
6 meetings · S&D
Fernando Navarrete Rojas
5 meetings · EPP
Gilles Boyer
4 meetings · Renew

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
28 Oct 2026Diego SolierExchange of Views
9 Sep 2026Fernando Navarrete RojasDigital Euro
2 Sep 2026Jonás FernándezBanking competitiveness
2 Sep 2026Isabel Benjumea BenjumeaECON Files
15 Jul 2026Cristina MaestreThe future of the agrifood sector in the EU
30 Jun 2026Nora Junco GarcíaDigital Euro opinion
30 Jun 2026Irene TinagliMeeting on banking issues
30 Jun 2026Ondřej KnotekSustainable finance
30 Jun 2026Enikő GyőriBanking competitiveness
30 Jun 2026Esteban González PonsEuro Digital
30 Jun 2026Isabel Benjumea BenjumeaECON Files
29 Jun 2026Markus FerberCompetitiveness of EU banking sector
10 Jun 2026Andreas SchwabDigital Euro
10 Jun 2026Stephen Nikola BartulicaDigital euro
9 Jun 2026Isabel Benjumea BenjumeaECON Files

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