Centre for Democracy Technology, Europe
CDT Europe
At CDT Europe, we work to increase equality, amplify voices, and promote human rights in European level law and policy debates.
Lobbying Activity
Response to Digital Omnibus revising several legislative acts in view of regulatory simplification
14 Oct 2025
Meeting with Sandro Ruotolo (Member of the European Parliament)
14 May 2025 · EU action on spyware
Meeting with Marco Giorello (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and
19 Mar 2025 · Code of Conduct on Online Advertising – Workshop 4
Meeting with Michael McGrath (Commissioner) and
13 Mar 2025 · Exchange on range of issues related to Commissioner’s portfolio including simplification, digital, data privacy and technology-related developments
Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen)
6 Mar 2025 · EU digital policy
Meeting with Birgit Sippel (Member of the European Parliament) and
19 Feb 2025 · Guidelines for banned AI use cases and the definition of AI (Staff-level)
Meeting with Birgit Sippel (Member of the European Parliament)
15 Oct 2024 · Digital rights in the 10th parliamentary term
Meeting with Markéta Gregorová (Member of the European Parliament)
10 Oct 2024 · AI, privacy and accountability
Meeting with Alexandra Geese (Member of the European Parliament)
2 Oct 2024 · Digital policies
Meeting with Alexandra Geese (Member of the European Parliament) and
1 Oct 2024 · Visionary roundtable: building an EU digital enforcement strategy
Meeting with Paul Tang (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
10 Jun 2024 · Staff Level: Child Sexual Abuse Regulation
Meeting with Paul Tang (Member of the European Parliament) and European Digital Rights
17 Apr 2024 · Staff Level: Fifth Edition of the Civil Society Roundtable Series
Meeting with Birgit Sippel (Member of the European Parliament)
13 Mar 2024 · EU-US e-evidence & UN Convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes (COM(2022) 132 final) (Staff-level)
Meeting with Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Access Now Europe
15 Sept 2023 · Political Advertising
Meeting with Alexandra Geese (Member of the European Parliament) and AWO Belgium BV (trading as AWO)
30 May 2023 · CSO workshop - Impactful advocacy during the Artificial Intelligence Act Trilogues
Meeting with Paul Tang (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
11 Apr 2023 · Child Sexual Abuse Regulation
Meeting with Věra Jourová (Vice-President) and
17 Mar 2023 · Defence of democracy package
Meeting with Javier Zarzalejos (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
12 Jan 2023 · Meeting with the Centre for Democracy & Technology, to discuss the proposal on preventing and combating child sexual abuse online
Meeting with Paul Tang (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and
12 Jan 2023 · Closed door stakeholders meeting on Child Sexual Abuse Regulation with MEP Alex Agius Saliba and MEP Helene Fritzon
Meeting with Alexandra Geese (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
24 Oct 2022 · Political advertising
Meeting with Alexandra Geese (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
18 Oct 2022 · Political advertising, Digital Services Act implementation
Meeting with Paul Tang (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion) and
28 Jun 2022 · Event on Political Advertising Regulation (assistant participated)
Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)
18 Jan 2022 · DSA
Meeting with Mette Dyrskjot (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)
7 Oct 2021 · Digital Services Act, EU Action Plan on Democracy and Human Rights
Meeting with Filomena Chirico (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)
18 Jan 2021 · DSA
Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and
9 Dec 2020 · Roundtable with NGOs on DSA and DMA
Meeting with Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
12 Nov 2020 · EDAP, DSA
Meeting with Didier Reynders (Commissioner) and
5 May 2020 · 1.COVID-19 situation - Role of digitial technologies and data in combating the outbreak 2. E-evidence proposals 3. Terrorist Content Online. State of negotiations: possible areas of compromise. 4. AI policy
Meeting with Věra Jourová (Vice-President) and
31 Jan 2020 · Political advertising and European Democracy Action Plan Digital policies and strategies
Meeting with Ylva Johansson (Commissioner) and
29 Jan 2020 · Cooperation in fight against terrorism
Meeting with Daniel Braun (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová)
14 Jan 2020 · Disinformation, Platforms
Meeting with Ulrik Trolle Smed (Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King)
12 Sept 2019 · Cyber security
Meeting with Eric Peters (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)
5 Dec 2018 · proposal for a Regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online
Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)
7 Nov 2018 · Terrorist Content Regulation
Response to Measures to further improve the effectiveness of the fight against illegal content online
29 Mar 2018
Meeting with Julie Ruff (Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King)
23 Mar 2018 · Cybersecurity
Meeting with Daniel Braun (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)
21 Mar 2018 · Online content
Meeting with Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip), Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)
6 Mar 2018 · Tackling illegal content online
Meeting with Eric Peters (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)
2 Mar 2018 · Tackling Illegal Content Online
Meeting with Giorgios Rossides (Cabinet of Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos)
23 Feb 2018 · Tackling illegal content online
Meeting with Carl-Christian Buhr (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)
3 Oct 2017 · Cyber / data
Meeting with Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip), Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)
7 Jun 2017 · NetzDG
Meeting with Daniel Braun (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)
29 May 2017 · The draft German Social Media Law
Meeting with Isabelle Perignon (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová), Kevin O'Connell (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)
21 Sept 2015 · Agreement with the United States on mutual legal assistance
Meeting with Robert Madelin (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and Teneo Brussels
21 May 2015 · Digital Single Market
Meeting with Marlene Holzner (Digital Economy)
25 Feb 2015 · Freedom of expression
Meeting with Adrienn Kiraly (Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics)
20 Jan 2015 · Copyright
Meeting with Kevin O'Connell (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)
9 Jan 2015 · Data protection
Meeting with Hanna Hinrikus (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip), Jasmin Battista (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip), Kamila Kloc (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)
16 Dec 2014 · Internet governance, copyright, data protection, telecoms single market
Meeting with Hanna Hinrikus (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)
16 Dec 2014 · Internet Governance