MEP of the week

Lobby organisation

Finance Watch

NGO or non-profit · Finance · HQ: Belgium · Transparency Register entry

As of 7 November 2026, Finance Watch appears in 85 declared MEP meetings (30 different MEPs), most often with Socialists & Democrats.

85
declared meetings
with current MEPs
30
MEPs met
€1.8M/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
7.0
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“Finance Watch works to rebalance private and public interest representation, in order for finance to better serve society. We do this by producing expertise on financial regulation issues in order to strengthen the voice of non-financial service actors in the legislative and regulatory debate. All expertise produced by Finance Watch is publicly available.”

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

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 85 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

Socialists & Democrats2631%
Renew Europe2529%
Greens/EFA1518%
The Left89%
European People's Party78%
Non-attached22%
European Conservatives & Reformists11%
Patriots for Europe11%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2019–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (24 in 2025). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.

2019
2
2020
1
2021
7
2022
12
2023
10
2024
16
2025
24
2026
13

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

Aurore Lalucq
12 meetings · S&D
Stéphanie Yon-Courtin
11 meetings · Renew
Gilles Boyer
7 meetings · Renew
Pascal Canfin
7 meetings · Renew
Damian Boeselager
4 meetings · Greens/EFA

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
22 May 2026Lara WoltersSFDR Revision
22 Apr 2026Lara WoltersSFDR Revision
22 Apr 2026Kira Marie Peter-HansenSFDR
21 Apr 2026Damian BoeselagerSingle Currency Package
15 Apr 2026Aurore LalucqMISP, IORP
14 Apr 2026Aurore LalucqIntroductory meeting
8 Apr 2026Sirpa PietikäinenFinance
5 Feb 2026René RepasiExchange on EU Financial Regulation
5 Feb 2026Markus FerberSIU
27 Jan 2026Pascal CanfinFinance regulations
27 Jan 2026Gilles BoyerDigital Euro
19 Jan 2026Marie ToussaintSecuritisation
19 Jan 2026Martin SchirdewanEU Securitisation Framework
19 Dec 2025Marie ToussaintSecuritisation
14 Nov 2025Lara WoltersSustainable Finance

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