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Lobby organisation

Erste Group Bank AG

Business / industry · Finance · HQ: Austria · Transparency Register entry

As of 9 September 2026, Erste Group Bank AG appears in 16 declared MEP meetings (14 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.

16
declared meetings
with current MEPs
14
MEPs met
€300,000/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
2.2
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“Erste Group was founded in 1819 as the first Austrian savings bank. Ever since its foundation Erste Group has been focusing on the real economy. As a key financial services provider in the eastern part of the EU, Erste Group's key business is the retail business, covering the entire spectrum from lending, deposit and investment products to current accounts and…”

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

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 16 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

European People's Party638%
Renew Europe531%
Socialists & Democrats425%
Greens/EFA16%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2022–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (4 in 2024).

2022
2
2023
2
2024
4
2025
4
2026
4

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

Gilles Boyer
2 meetings · Renew
Angelika Winzig
2 meetings · EPP
Luděk Niedermayer
1 meeting · EPP
Jonás Fernández
1 meeting · S&D
Alexandra Geese
1 meeting · Greens/EFA

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
16 Jul 2026Jonás FernándezBanking competitiveness
30 Mar 2026Helmut BrandstätterExchange of Views
19 Mar 2026Irene TinagliMeeting on housing issues
19 Mar 2026Martin HojsíkHousing crisis, Affordable Housing
1 Dec 2025Angelika WinzigMeeting with representative of Erste Group
22 Sep 2025Angelika WinzigMeeting with representative of Erste Group
28 Aug 2025Alexandra GeeseEvent: European Forum Alpbach „European Digital Sovereignty in Times of Geopolitical Competition“
16 Jun 2025Ľudovít ÓdorCourtesy meeting
3 Dec 2024Tomislav SokolInternal market and consumer protection
3 Dec 2024Klára DobrevGlobal competitiveness, financial needs of the EU and Central Europe in particular, results of the US Presidential Election
8 Nov 2024Victor NegrescuIntroductory meeting and EU budget 2025
28 Oct 2024Lukas MandlDeregulierung, europäisches Bankenwesen
26 Apr 2023Gilles BoyerCRR3, Digital Euro
8 Mar 2023Axel VossCorporate Sustainability Due Diligence
28 Nov 2022Luděk NiedermayerMeeting on AMLD6 and financial services files

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