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Lobby organisation

News Media Europe

Business / industry · Media & publishing · HQ: Belgium · Transparency Register entry

As of 9 September 2026, News Media Europe appears in 41 declared MEP meetings (30 different MEPs), most often with Greens/EFA.

41
declared meetings
with current MEPs
30
MEPs met
€50,000/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
3.0
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“News Media Europe represents and promoting the interests of the European news media industry. The association represents over 2700 news brands, in print and online, on radio or television.”

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

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 41 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

Greens/EFA1229%
Socialists & Democrats1229%
Renew Europe820%
European People's Party717%
European Conservatives & Reformists12%
The Left12%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2019–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (10 in 2024).

2019
3
2020
6
2021
4
2022
1
2023
2
2024
10
2025
9
2026
6

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

Alex Agius Saliba
4 meetings · S&D
Axel Voss
4 meetings · EPP
Irena Joveva
3 meetings · Renew
Tiemo Wölken
2 meetings · S&D
Erik Marquardt
2 meetings · Greens/EFA

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
30 Jun 2026Maria GuzeninaExchange of views on AI
9 Jun 2026Joanna Scheuring-WielgusAgoraEU
11 May 2026Lucia YarAgoraEU Programme
24 Mar 2026Sebastian TynkkynenDigital Omnibus
26 Feb 2026Alice KuhnkeAgoraEU - News media
3 Feb 2026Axel VossStakeholder meeting on AI Omnibus
9 Dec 2025David CormandCopyright & IA
18 Nov 2025Mario FuroreCopyright and AI
1 Sep 2025Axel VossCopyright and generative AI
28 May 2025Helmut BrandstätterExchange of Views
14 May 2025Nela RiehlStakeholder Roundtable:The Future of European Broadcasting, Press and Media: How to create a common European Media Space?
14 May 2025Diana Riba I GinerBroadcasting, press and media in the EU
14 May 2025Erik MarquardtStakeholder Roundtable: Broadcasting, Press and Media in the EU
6 May 2025Axel VossCopyright and generative AI
18 Mar 2025Nathalie LoiseauBouclier démocratique européen

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