Overview
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2013 - Dec 2013
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2 Fte (8)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
49
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Atlantic Council
EU Transparency Register
524686116124-73 First registered on 20 Feb 2015
Goals / Remit
The Atlantic Council promotes constructive leadership and engagement in international affairs based on the Atlantic Community's central role in meeting global challenges. The Council provides an essential forum for navigating the dramatic economic and political changes defining the twenty-first century by informing and galvanizing its uniquely influential network of global leaders. Through the papers we write, the ideas we generate, and the communities we build, the Council shapes policy choices and strategies to create a more secure and prosperous world.
Main EU files targeted
The Atlantic Council conducts research and other activities related to a wide range of EU initiatives and policies. Currently, these include: energy union and energy security, common foreign and defense policy, Eurozone governance, financial services regulation, TTIP and other trade issues, digital marketplace, neighborhood policy, and European growth and economy.
Address
Head Office
1030 15th Street, NW
12th floor
Washington DC 20005
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People
Total lobbyists declared
8
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 8 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Frances Burwell (Vice President)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Frederick Kempe (President and CEO)
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Categories
Category
IV - Think tanks, research and academic institutions
Subcategory
Think tanks and research institutions
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
no membership organizations
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2013 - Dec 2013
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
None declared
EU grant income for closed financial year
36,000 € (Source: EU Delegation to Washington)
Other financial info
budget amount based on dollar/euro conversion as of Feb 20, 2015
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
The Atlantic Council undertakes a wide range of policy-relevant activities, including: conferences; speeches by high-level policymakers, off-the-record roundtables; task forces; reports on a range of issues; electronic newsletters and blogs; etc. Among those relevant to our EU-focused work are the following:
Strategy Session for Incoming EU Ambassador to the US, David O’Sullivan
-Public event on “European Energy Security Challenges and Transatlantic Cooperation” with Keynote Speech by new EU Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, Miguel Arias Canete
-Flagship Conference “Toward a Transatlantic Strategy for Europe’s East”
-TTIP report on SME’s: “The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Big Opportunities for Small Business”
-North South Corridor Report: “Completing Europe—From the North-South Corridor to Energy, Transportation, and Telecommunications Union”
-Energy Report: “The Shale Revolution and the New Geopolitics of Energy”
-Public event on “25 Years of Transition: Post-Communist Europe’s Economic Transition” with Aasim Husain, Deputy Director of the IMF and the Ambassadors of Poland and Latvia to the US
-Wroclaw Global Forum: annual conference in Poland covering European and transatlantic issues
-Flagship Conference: “Europe, Whole and Free”
-Private event “Transatlantic Relations and the Prospects for Free Trade” with UK Secretary of State Philip HammondOther activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
49 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 19 Jan 2024 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject EU-US relations in the light of the upcoming elections in EU and U.S., the Atlantic Council invitation to the HR/VP Borrell to participate in a highly-level event in D.C. or in Brussels. Cabinet Cabinet of High Representative Josep Borrell Fontelles Attending - Anne Bergenfelt (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Jan 2024 Location videoconference call Subject Preparatory meeting for WEF 2024 Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)
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Date 05 Dec 2023 Location Dubai, UAE Subject Energy transition DG Energy Attending - Ditte Juul Jørgensen (Director-General)
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Date 30 Oct 2023 Location Washington D.C. Subject Energy market DG Energy Attending - Ditte Juul Jørgensen (Director-General)
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Date 11 Oct 2023 Location Brussels Subject EU-US Trade and Technology Council Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Alejandro Cainzos (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 May 2023 Location Washington Subject EU-US cooperation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean Portfolio Transport Attending - Filip Alexandru Negreanu Arboreanu (Cabinet member)
- Adina-Ioana Vălean (Commissioner)
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Date 22 Feb 2023 Location Washington, USA Subject EU-US collaboration in supporting Ukraine and in tackling the global food security crisis Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Janusz Wojciechowski (Commissioner)
- Maciej Golubiewski (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 Sep 2022 Location Brussels Subject Digital policies Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Alejandro Cainzos (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 May 2022 Location Brussels Subject DMA/DSA implementation and the AI and Data act, EU digital sovereignty. Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Kim Jorgensen (Cabinet member)
- Penelope Papandropoulos (Cabinet member)
- Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 May 2021 Location online Subject EU-US relations Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Margaritis Schinas Portfolio Promoting the European Way of Life Attending - Margaritis Schinas (Vice-President)
- Maria Luisa Llano Cardenal (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 May 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Transatlantic Relationship Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Pauline Weinzierl (Cabinet member)
- Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Feb 2021 Location Video Conferencing Subject Financial Resilence Future of Secondary Sanctions and Global Response Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
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Date 10 Dec 2020 Location videoconference Subject EDAP roadmap Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Daniel Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Dec 2020 Location videoconference Subject EDAP Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 28 Jul 2020 Location Brussels - Belgium Subject High-Level Roundtable Discussion on The State of the Union in 2020 and EU's Global Engagement in a Covid-19 world - [Via Webex] Cabinet Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen Portfolio President Attending - Fernando Sampedro Marcos (Cabinet member)
- Olivier Smith (Cabinet member)
- Brenda Furniere (Cabinet member)
- Bjoern Seibert (Cabinet member)
- Valeria Miceli (Cabinet member)
- Sonia Vila Nunez (Cabinet member)
- Per Haugaard (Cabinet member)
- Nicole Dewandre (Cabinet member)
- Anthony Whelan (Cabinet member)
- Peteris Ustubs (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - The Wallenberg Foundations AB
- GLOBSEC
- Mercator Institute for China Studies
- Egmont Institute
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- European University Institute
- The German Marshall Fund of the United States - The Transatlantic Foundation
- Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy
- Carnegie Europe
- European Council on Foreign Relations
- Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich im. Marka Karpia
- Real Instituto Elcano
- the Clingendael Institute
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Date 22 Jun 2020 Location Videoconference Subject COVID 19 disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 20 May 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Webinar - Democracy and the Covid-19 crisis Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Daniel Braun (Cabinet member)
- Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)
- Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 08 May 2020 Location Videoconference Subject US-EU at 70: The Way Forward Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Margaritis Schinas Portfolio Promoting the European Way of Life Attending - Margaritis Schinas (Vice-President)
- Maria Luisa Llano Cardenal (Cabinet member)
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Date 20 Feb 2020 Location Washington Subject EU -US energy cooperation and Energy Security in the context of the Green Deal DG Energy Attending - Ditte Juul Jørgensen (Director-General)
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Date 11 Oct 2019 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Presentation of AC activities on energy transatlantic cooperation. DG Energy Attending - Ditte Juul Jørgensen (Director-General)
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Date 13 Apr 2019 Location Washington, USA Subject Ukraine Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President)
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Date 12 Apr 2019 Location Washington, USA Subject Brexit, The Future of Europe, European Elections + foreign influence, EU and global financial markets after Brexit, The international role of the Euro, Macroeconomic challenges, EU-China relationship, Sustainable Finance, Fintech Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Zaneta Vegnere (Cabinet member)
- Elina Melngaile (Cabinet member)
- Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President)
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Date 26 Mar 2019 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject EU–US energy cooperation DG Energy Attending - Dominique Ristori (Director-General)
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Date 14 Feb 2019 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market, cybersecurity Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Vivian Loonela (Cabinet member)
- Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
- Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Feb 2019 Location Brussels Subject 5G telecommunications security and transatlantic cooperation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King Portfolio Security Union Attending - James Morrison (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Feb 2019 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject EU-US cooperation in energy DG Energy Attending - Dominique Ristori (Director-General)
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Date 08 Feb 2019 Location Brussels Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King Portfolio Security Union Attending - Ulrik Trolle Smed (Cabinet member)
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Date 31 Jan 2019 Location Brussels Subject 5G security Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Vivian Loonela (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 Nov 2017 Location Brussels Subject Neighbourhood Policy DG European Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations Attending - Christian Danielsson (Director-General)
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Date 15 Oct 2017 Location Washington Subject current geopolitical issues Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President)
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Date 30 May 2017 Location Brussels Subject Eastern Neighbourhood DG European Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations Attending - Christian Danielsson (Director-General)
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Date 21 Apr 2017 Location Washington D.C. Subject international cooperation on financial regulation; the Dodd Frank Act; EU economic outlook; Basel III Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President)
- Elina Melngaile (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Apr 2017 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject EU-US Relations Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Competition Attending - Linsey Mccallum (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Apr 2017 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Energy policy DG Energy Attending - Dominique Ristori (Director-General)
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Date 10 Mar 2017 Location Washington, USA Subject Digital Single Market, White Paper Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet member)
- Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
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Date 13 Oct 2016 Location Brussels Subject Wroclaw Forum Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Edward Bannerman (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Oct 2016 Location Brussels Subject DSM, cloud computing DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
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Date 31 May 2016 Location Brussels Subject Ukraine Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President)
- Elina Melngaile (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Apr 2016 Location Washington DC Subject Speech "Europe's Staying Power" Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Elina Melngaile (Cabinet member)
- Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President)
- Zaneta Vegnere (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Apr 2016 Location Berlaymont Subject Think Tank Outreach DG Inspire, Debate, Engage and Accelerate Action Attending - Ann Mettler (Director-General)
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Date 19 Nov 2015 Location Brussels Subject transatlantic digital issues DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Nov 2015 Location Brussels Subject Transatlantic economic relations Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Edward Bannerman (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Sep 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM strategy DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 15 Sep 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Data protection and DSM Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová Portfolio Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Attending - Kevin O'Connell (Cabinet member)
- Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Sep 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject transatlantic digital agenda Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Nele Eichhorn (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Sep 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM strategy DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 10 Jun 2015 Location Berlaymont Subject Meeting with the Director of Strategic Foresight at the Atlantic Council in Washington DG Inspire, Debate, Engage and Accelerate Action Attending - Ann Mettler (Director-General)
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Date 09 Jun 2015 Location Brussels Subject Discussions on Neighbourhood and Enlargement policies DG European Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations Attending - Christian Danielsson (Director-General)
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Date 25 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject European Competitiveness Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Aura Salla (Cabinet member)
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