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Foundation on European Citizens’ Rights, Involvement and Trust

Think tank or academic body · Think tanks & research · HQ: Belgium · Transparency Register entry

As of 8 October 2026, Foundation on European Citizens’ Rights, Involvement and Trust appears in 3 declared MEP meetings (2 different MEPs), most often with Socialists & Democrats.

3
declared meetings
with current MEPs
2
MEPs met
–
lobbying spend
none reported in the Register
3.8
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“The ECIT Foundation (Foundation on European Citizens’ Rights, Involvement and Trust) is a Brussels-based public foundation established under Belgian law on 3 June 2015 to work exclusively on topics pertaining to European citizenship.”

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“It serves as a ‘think-and-do tank’: producing not just research and policy analysis, but also actively campaigning and organising public events to bring together civil society organisations, academics and policy makers. ECIT’s raison d’être is to ensure the concept of European citizenship becomes more than the sum of its parts. ECIT has pioneered the idea of a statute on European citizenship. The proposal is supported by the European Parliament and the Conference on the Future of Europe. For specific projects such the ECI "voters without borders" or the new one "All on Board" ECIT works with a youth task force.”

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

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 3 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

Socialists & Democrats267%
Greens/EFA133%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2022–2023. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (2 in 2023).

2022
1
2023
2

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

Victor Negrescu
2 meetings · S&D
Daniel Freund
1 meeting · Greens/EFA

The 3 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
22 Mar 2023Victor NegrescuCitizenship education
1 Feb 2023Victor NegrescuCitizenship education
29 Mar 2022Daniel FreundWar in Ukraine

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