Lobby organisation
Bundesverband Kooperierender Mittelstand
Business group · Consumer & retail · HQ: Germany · Transparency Register entry
As of 7 November 2026, Bundesverband Kooperierender Mittelstand appears in 12 declared MEP meetings (7 different MEPs), most often with Socialists & Democrats.
In their own words
“DER MITTELSTANDSVERBUND (SME Groups Germany) is the leading professional association of cooperations between small and medium sized enterprises. DER MITTELSTANDSVERBUND unites companies from the retail, crafts and services sectors as well as the production industry. DER MITTELSTANDSVERBUND represents around 230.000 independent entrepreneurs which are organized in about 310 groups. The legal form differs between the groups.”
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“Whereas around the half of the groups reside as registered cooperatives, the other groups are limited liability companies or stock corporations […]”
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Who they meet, and when
Which groups they meet
Share of this organisation's 12 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.
Meetings by year
Declared meetings per calendar year, 2019–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (6 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 12 most recent declared meetings
| Date | MEP | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2026 | Eero Heinäluoma | European Business Wallets |
| 1 Apr 2026 | Katarina Barley | internal market legislation |
| 14 Oct 2025 | Andreas Glück | Environment Policy |
| 1 Sep 2025 | Axel Voss | Copyright and generative AI |
| 15 Apr 2025 | René Repasi | Payment Services Directive |
| 25 Feb 2025 | Andreas Glück | Climate and Environment Policy |
| 6 Feb 2025 | René Repasi | Austausch zum geplanten Omnibus Vorschlag |
| 24 Jan 2025 | Gabriele Bischoff | Austausch mit dem Wirtschaftsforum der SPD e.V. zur Revision Eurobetriebsräte |
| 3 Oct 2024 | Andreas Glück | Environmental Policy |
| 8 Mar 2023 | Axel Voss | Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence |
| 20 Apr 2020 | Alexandra Geese | Impact of COVID-19 on German SMEs and e-Commerce |
| 4 Sep 2019 | Alexandra Geese | Thema Data Sharing / Data Pooling |
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