The meeting map
Under the European Transparency Register, Commissioners are required to publish all meetings with lobbyists and interest representatives within two weeks. We have ingested every such disclosure since January 2025 — 3,412 meetings across 21 Commissioners and their cabinets.
Modelled as a bipartite network — organisations on one side, Commissioners on the other — a small number of nodes emerge with dramatically higher degree centrality. BusinessEurope leads with 47 disclosed meetings, followed by the European Round Table of Industrialists (38) and the European Banking Federation (31).
Access concentration
The top 12 organisations — representing less than 0.4% of registered entities — account for 30% of all disclosed meetings. This concentration is higher than in the comparable period of the previous Commission, when the top 12 held 24% of meetings.
Civil society and NGO access is markedly lower: the top environmental NGO (WWF European Policy Office) ranks 34th by meeting count. Consumer organisations rank even lower, with BEUC at 41st.