Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
4
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Wikimedia Europe (WMEU)
EU Transparency Register
191538712765-84 First registered on 29 Jan 2014
Goals / Remit
Wikimedia Europe, formerly knwow as the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU, aims at coordinating mainly the European Wikimedia chapters so they can have a unified and clear position on major legislative and political changes affecting the vision, mission and values of the Wikimedia movement.
It promotes Free Knowledge through popularising Wikimedia projects and advocating for a legal framework supporting the public domain and enlarging the knowledge commons.Main EU files targeted
E-Evidence
DSA Implementation
Right to Repair
Artificial Intelligence Regulation
Liability (Product & AI)
Disinformation
CSAM
Net Neutarlity/Fair ShareAddress
Head Office
Rue Belliard 12
Etterbeek 1040
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue Belliard 12
Etterbeek 1040
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
4 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 15 Sep 2024
Name Start date End Date Michele FAILLA 04 Sep 2024 04 Sep 2025 Dimitar Zagorski 04 Sep 2024 04 Sep 2025 Anna MAZGAL 13 Dec 2023 12 Dec 2024 Michele FAILLA 06 Dec 2023 06 Sep 2024 Dimitar DIMITROV 06 Dec 2023 05 Dec 2024 Ms Zaritsa GEORGIEVA 13 Jun 2017 10 Jun 2018 Ms Galina MANCHEVA 06 Apr 2017 05 Apr 2018 Mr Eric Luth 21 Feb 2017 24 Jan 2018 Mr Borislav SANDOV 08 Jun 2016 08 Jun 2017 Ms Zaritsa GEORGIEVA 19 Feb 2016 01 Mar 2017 Karl Sigfrid 06 Nov 2014 04 Nov 2015 Mr Laurence Romaine Kunst 05 Mar 2014 04 Mar 2015 Complementary Information
Wikimedia Europe is an association uniting the European Wikimedia chapters in their need to be represented in Brussels at the EU level.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
Wikimedia is part of European Digital Rights and the Communia Association.
Member organisations
Wikimedia UK(224),
Wikimedia Sverige(230),
Wikimedia Polska(126),
Wikimedia Nederland(200),
Wikimedia Italia(471),
Wikimedia France(470),
Wikimedia Eesti(31),
Wikimedia Deutschland(90000),
Wikimedia Czeska Republika(41),
Wikimedia Osterreich(220),
Wikimedia Belgium(60),
Wikimedia Norge (100),
Wikimedians of Latvia (5)
Wikimedians of Bulgaria (25)
Wikimedians of Greece (15)
Wikimedia Spain (50)
Wikimedia Hungary (100)
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
217,000€
Major funding types in closed year
Member's contribution
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution Wikimedia Deutschland (paying for staff) 140,000€ Other financial info
We published detailed contributions and spending for the current and past years on:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Transparency -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
European cultural heritage, ways of Saint-James and other European cultural routes#Artificial intelligence and digital
Communication activities
Among others:
*Public consultations on AI, content moderation, digital markets, data sharing, privacy, e-evidence
*Public positions on wikimedia.brussels
*Joint letters and email outreach to MEPs and PermRepsOther activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
3 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.
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 23 May 2024 Location Brussels Subject elections, disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)
- Daniel Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 May 2024 Location videoconference call Subject anti-SLAPP Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 20 Sep 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Dsa and dma: application to collaborative platforms Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)