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Border Violence Monitoring Network

NGO / non-profit · Human rights & humanitarian · HQ: Germany · Transparency Register entry

As of 9 September 2026, Border Violence Monitoring Network appears in 22 declared MEP meetings (8 different MEPs), most often with Greens/EFA.

22
declared meetings
with current MEPs
8
MEPs met
€200,000/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
6.8
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“The Border Violence Monitoring Network is a network of organizations committed to monitor and advocate for the end of violence that people on the move face. Our monitoring efforts through testimony collections summarise pushbacks and other types of border violence in Europe.Our goal is too provide an overview of changes, trends, and specific notable cases in a variety of geographical…”

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

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 22 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

Greens/EFA1464%
Socialists & Democrats732%
Renew Europe15%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2020–2025. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (11 in 2023).

2020
2
2021
1
2022
1
2023
11
2024
2
2025
5

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

Tineke Strik
9 meetings · Greens/EFA
Birgit Sippel
6 meetings · S&D
Erik Marquardt
2 meetings · Greens/EFA
Alice Kuhnke
1 meeting · Greens/EFA
Saskia Bricmont
1 meeting · Greens/EFA

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
2 Jul 2025Birgit SippelFacilitation Directive
14 May 2025Cecilia StradaPushback practices at the european borders
6 Mar 2025Birgit SippelDevelopments in EU Migration Policy & Implementation of the New Pact / CEAS
6 Mar 2025Alice KuhnkeMigration
27 Jan 2025Anna StrolenbergEU asylum and migration policy
10 Jul 2024Tineke StrikMigration and asylum
25 Jan 2024Tineke Strikasylum and migration
6 Dec 2023Tineke StrikAsylum and Migration Pact
1 Dec 2023Birgit SippelScreening Regulation (staff-level)
16 Nov 2023Birgit SippelScreening Regulation (staff level)
8 Nov 2023Tineke Strikmigrant rights
5 Jul 2023Tineke Strikmigrant rights
10 May 2023Birgit SippelSituation in Greece and Croatia; Screening Regulation
22 Mar 2023Tineke StrikViolence used at the border
22 Mar 2023Tineke Strikpotential cooperation on Western Balkans

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