MEP of the week

Lobby organisation

Vanguard Europe

Business / industry · Cross-sector / other · HQ: Belgium · Transparency Register entry

As of 9 September 2026, Vanguard Europe appears in 5 declared MEP meetings (4 different MEPs), most often with Renew Europe.

5
declared meetings
with current MEPs
4
MEPs met
€250,000/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
3.0
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“Vanguard Europe is a mission-driven company. Our goal is to empower clients aligned with the long-term strategic objectives that contribute to the European Union’s success on the global stage: alignment with democratic countries and NATO, technological competitiveness, strategic resilience, democratic consolidation, and security and defense. To that end, we leverage cutting-edge expertise to generate in-depth policy insights and to effect…”

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

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 5 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

Renew Europe360%
European People's Party240%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2020–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (4 in 2026).

2020
1
2021
0
2022
0
2023
0
2024
0
2025
0
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

Bart Groothuis
2 meetings · Renew
Luděk Niedermayer
1 meeting · EPP
Sirpa Pietikäinen
1 meeting · EPP
Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy
1 meeting · Renew

The 5 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
1 Jul 2026Bart GroothuisDigital Omnibus (Defence)
1 Jun 2026Bart GroothuisDigital Omnibus (Defence)
28 Apr 2026Luděk NiedermayerSFDR
25 Feb 2026Gerben-Jan GerbrandySFDR
10 Sep 2020Sirpa PietikäinenDisclosure and EU Taxonomy

Meeting an MEP is a normal part of democratic life; the record is shown so anyone can see it.