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Overview
Lobbying Costs
3,875,000€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
29.25 Fte (38)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
25
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Bruegel
EU Transparency Register
33622026795-64 First registered on 27 Sep 2011
Goals / Remit
Bruegel is a European think tank working in the field of international economics. Established in 2005, Bruegel is independent and non-doctrinal. It seeks to contribute to European and global economic policy-making through open, fact-based and policy-relevant research, analysis and debate. Bruegel's governance and funding model is unique. Its membership includes EU governments and leading international corporations as well as international institutions. Its day-to-day work is carried out at arm‘s length from members' interests.
Main EU files targeted
European macro economics, Finance and financial regulation,Competition, innovation and sustainable growth. Please see our annual Research Programme on our website (http://bruegel.org/about/).
Address
Head Office
Rue de la Charité, 33
Brussels 1210
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People
Total lobbyists declared
38
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 13 75% 15 50% 10 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
29.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 17 Mar 2025
Name Start date End Date Mr Zsolt DARVAS 05 Oct 2017 19 Apr 2018 Mr Guntram Wolff 05 May 2017 19 Apr 2018 Mr Guntram Wolff 24 May 2014 05 Jun 2015 Mr Erik Dale 23 May 2014 05 Jun 2015 Mr Guntram Wolff 12 Jan 2013 28 Sep 2013 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Matt Dann (Secretary General)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Guntram Wolff (Director)
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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
http://www.bruegel.org/membership/
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
3,875,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
149,312 € (Source: DG ECFIN, EP ECON)
Other financial info
For a much fuller breakdown of income and expenditure, as well as the current balance sheet, please refer to Bruegel's Annual Report 2016, available for download at www.bruegel.org. Bruegel has published information on income and expenditure since inception in 2004, all the records are available via our website.
Bruegel does not have a budget for direct representation of "interests" as it is not an interest representing organisation - it is a public good with varied public and private funding, with checks and balances in place to safeguard its independence, even from its members and other stakeholders.
Bruegel is fully committed to transparency, and has been since inception, and discloses both income and spending each year as well as disclosing the outside interests (financial and non-financial) of all its scholars and management.
Bruegel has a number of other measures in place to guard against capture by specific interests including public declarations of outside interests (both financial and non-financial). -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
European macro economics, Finance and financial regulation,Competition, innovation and sustainable growth. Please see our Research Programme on our website.
Meetings
Meetings
25 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below covers meetings with Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general (high-level) Commission meetings published December 2014 to December 2024, and the meetings of Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general and officials holding "management functions" in the Commission published since 1 January 2025. Other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may well have taken place, but the Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. All information below comes from the Commission and not from the registrant.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 07 Mar 2018 Location Brussels, BERL Subject Discussion of gender equality and the Future of Europe Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President)
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Date 19 Dec 2017 Location Brussels Subject Union bancaire Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Paulina Dejmek Hack (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Nov 2017 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Meeting with the Task Force for the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom under Article 50 TEU DG Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom Attending - Michel Barnier (Head of Task Force)
Other Lobbyists - Centre for European Policy Studies
- European Council on Foreign Relations
- Centre on European Relations (Scotland)
- DCU Brexit Institute
- Egmont Institute
- Finnish Institute of International Affairs
- Carnegie Europe
- European Policy Centre
- Centre for European Reform
- Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors / Notre Europe - Jacques Delors Institute
- Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’
- Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
- Real Instituto Elcano
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Date 07 Sep 2017 Location Brussels Subject Bruegel Annual Dinner Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Paulina Dejmek Hack (Cabinet member)
- Luc Tholoniat (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Jun 2017 Location Brussels Subject EU budget Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Günther Oettinger Portfolio Budget & Human Resources Attending - Markus Schulte (Cabinet member)
- Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Feb 2017 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject EPSC High Level Policy lunch : The Future of Europe, Charting a New Course at a Critical Moment Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Clara Martinez Alberola (Cabinet member)
- Luc Tholoniat (Cabinet member)
- Martin Selmayr (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Sep 2016 Location Berlaymont Subject Think Tank Engagement DG Inspire, Debate, Engage and Accelerate Action Attending - Ann Mettler (Director-General)
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Date 08 Sep 2016 Location Brussels Belgium Subject State of the Union 2016 Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Clara Martinez Alberola (Cabinet member)
- Martin Selmayr (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - Royal Institute of International Affairs
- Migration Policy Institute Europe
- European Council on Foreign Relations
- Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors / Notre Europe - Jacques Delors Institute
- Friends of Europe
- European Policy Centre
- The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal asbl
- Egmont Institute
- GLOBSEC
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Date 06 Sep 2016 Location Brussels Subject Energy Union research Innovation and competitiveness Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Portfolio Energy Union Attending - Manuel Szapiro (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Feb 2016 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Market design Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete Portfolio Climate Action & Energy Attending - Miguel Arias Cañete (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists - Snam S.p.A.
- BUSINESSEUROPE
- Greenpeace European Unit
- Business for New Europe
- European Chemical Industry Council
- WindEurope
- The European Association for the Promotion of Cogeneration
- Centre for European Policy Studies
- International Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers
- Eurelectric aisbl
- smartEn Smart Energy Europe
- European Federation of Local and Regional Energy Companies
- Europex - Association of European Energy Exchanges
- European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity
- Third Generation Environmentalism Ltd
- GEODE - The voice of local energy distributors across Europe
- EDSO for Smart Grids
- Friends of Sustainable Grids
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Date 24 Nov 2015 Location Paris Subject Completing the Banking Union DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Olivier Guersent (Director-General)
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Date 20 Nov 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Banking regulatory 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 - Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Nov 2015 Location Brussels Subject Workshop on the Single Market Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Edward Bannerman (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Nov 2015 Location Brussels Subject Financial Policy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill Portfolio Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Matthew Baldwin (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Oct 2015 Location Brussels Subject exchange of views on EMU Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici Portfolio Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Attending - Reinhard Felke (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 Jul 2015 Location Brussels Subject Collaborative innovation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas Portfolio Research, Science and Innovation Attending - Keith Sequeira (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Jun 2015 Location Berlaymont Subject Meeting with Senior Fellow DG Inspire, Debate, Engage and Accelerate Action Attending - Ann Mettler (Director-General)
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Date 04 May 2015 Location Brussels Subject Deepening EMU Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici Portfolio Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Attending - Pierre Moscovici (Commissioner)
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Date 23 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject CMU Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Valérie Herzberg (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject TTIP Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Christian Burgsmueller (Cabinet member)
- Cecilia Malmström (Commissioner)
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Date 24 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Financial Policy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill Portfolio Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Matthew Baldwin (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Dec 2014 Location Brussels Subject Investment Initiative Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Miguel Gil Tertre (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Dec 2014 Location Brussels Subject Energy Union Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Telmo Baltazar (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Dec 2014 Location Brussels Subject Investment Initiative Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Miguel Gil Tertre (Cabinet member)
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Date 02 Dec 2014 Location Berl 8/97 Subject Energy Union Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Portfolio Energy Union Attending - Peter van Kemseke (Cabinet member)