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European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions

Trade union · Labour & trade unions · HQ: Belgium · Transparency Register entry

As of 7 November 2026, European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions appears in 68 declared MEP meetings (35 different MEPs), most often with Socialists & Democrats.

68
declared meetings
with current MEPs
35
MEPs met
€100k/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
7.0
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“1. Composition EFFAT is the European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism sectors resulting from the merger concluded between two European trade union federations, the ECF-IUF and EFA, on 11 December 2000.”

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“As a European Federation representing 120 national trade unions from 35 European countries, EFFAT defends the interests of more than 2.6 million employees towards the European Institutions, European associations and enterprise management. 2. Objectives EFFAT is an autonomous European trade union federation. As a member of the ETUC, EFFAT promotes members' interests jointly and with strength regarding all European interprofessional issues. EFFAT also supports the IUF which defends members' interests world- and sector-wide. In recent years EFFAT has set up European Works Councils in more than 100 transnational groups and has a successful social dialogue under way in, among others, the agriculture, hotel and restaurant, contract catering, (...)”

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

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 68 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

Socialists & Democrats2943%
Greens/EFA1522%
The Left1421%
Renew Europe69%
European People's Party34%
Non-attached11%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2019–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (28 in 2025). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.

2019
3
2020
8
2021
0
2022
3
2023
5
2024
10
2025
28
2026
11

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

Johan Danielsson
7 meetings · S&D
Thomas Waitz
5 meetings · Greens/EFA
Gabriele Bischoff
4 meetings · S&D
Leila Chaibi
4 meetings · The Left
Martin Häusling
4 meetings · Greens/EFA

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
15 Jul 2026Fabio de Masi28th Regime
2 Jul 2026Thomas WaitzCAP
2 Jul 2026Arash Saeidi28th Regime
30 Jun 2026Rudi KennesWorkers' rights
12 May 2026Barry CowenMeeting with European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions
22 Apr 2026Thomas WaitzAgriculture, CAP
14 Apr 2026Norbert LinsGAP
10 Feb 2026Anthony SmithManifestation contre la sous-traitance et pour le renforcement des inspections du travail en Europe
10 Feb 2026Per ClausenSubcontracting
28 Jan 2026Benedetta ScuderiSubcontracting chain
14 Jan 2026Norbert LinsGAP
10 Dec 2025Rudi KennesWorkers' rights, international trade
3 Dec 2025Marit MaijSubcontracting
3 Dec 2025Johan DanielssonSubcontacting
17 Nov 2025Marit MaijDomestic Workers in Europe: Recognition, Rights, and Regulation

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