European Disability Forum

EDF

We are an umbrella organisation of persons with disabilities that defends the interests of over 100 million persons with disabilities in Europe.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (Member of the European Parliament) and European Network for Accessible Tourism - ENAT asbl

16 Jul 2025 · Roundtable on Inclusive Tourism

Response to Digital Networks Act

11 Jul 2025

Meeting with Tuuli-Maria Mattila (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

10 Jul 2025 · Discussion on digital accessibility

Meeting with Dainius Žalimas (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Jul 2025 · Meeting

Meeting with Maria Zafra Saura (Cabinet of Commissioner Michael McGrath)

17 Jun 2025 · Rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities

Meeting with Roxana Mînzatu (Executive Vice-President) and

28 May 2025 · Rights of persons with disabilities, pending priorities

Meeting with Hadja Lahbib (Commissioner) and

22 May 2025 · EU Disability Rights Strategy

Meeting with Isilda Gomes (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

13 May 2025 · EU Strategy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Meeting with Giusi Princi (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion)

28 Apr 2025 · Disability

Meeting with Jessika Roswall (Commissioner) and

25 Apr 2025 · Consultation of disabled groups in the context of policy and legislative development

Meeting with Hanna Anttilainen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné), Helena Robyn (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné), Valentina Schaumburger (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné)

22 Apr 2025 · European Single Market, Standardisation, Public Procurement, Intellectual Property

Meeting with Glenn Micallef (Commissioner) and

14 Apr 2025 · Introductory meeting

Meeting with Valérie Devaux (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and European Association of Service providers for Persons with Disabilities

24 Mar 2025 · handicap

Meeting with Célia Dejond (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra), Olivia Gippner (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)

21 Mar 2025 · Discussion on EU climate policy and international climate diplomacy

Meeting with Kim Van Sparrentak (Member of the European Parliament) and

19 Feb 2025 · Withdrawal horizontal anti-discrimination directive

Meeting with Alice Kuhnke (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and

19 Feb 2025 · Anti-discrimination

Meeting with Hristo Petrov (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Feb 2025 · European Disability Employment and Skills Guarantee

Meeting with Andrey Novakov (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

10 Feb 2025 · Passenger rights file

Meeting with Lynn Boylan (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Feb 2025 · Persons with Disabilities in Occupied Territories

Meeting with Pierre Jouvet (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

30 Jan 2025 · Droits des passagers

Meeting with Alex Agius Saliba (Member of the European Parliament)

29 Jan 2025 · Executive committee meeting with Disability Intergroup bureau

Meeting with Alicia Homs Ginel (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

29 Jan 2025 · Implications of the Traineeships Directive for persons with disabilities

Meeting with Cecilia Strada (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Jan 2025 · discussion on the rights of persons with disabilities, including voting rights, access to quality healthcare and education and removal of barriers

Meeting with Alice Kuhnke (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion) and

27 Jan 2025 · Passenger rights

Meeting with Vicent Marzà Ibáñez (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

21 Jan 2025 · Implementation of Passenger Rights

Meeting with Idoia Mendia (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Jan 2025 · Meeting with EDF

Meeting with Jana Toom (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

14 Jan 2025 · Protection of vulnerable adults

Meeting with Maria Guzenina (Member of the European Parliament)

27 Nov 2024 · Disability Rights

Meeting with Marit Maij (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and

14 Oct 2024 · Roundtable with CSOs for input for ESF Plus

Meeting with Jana Toom (Member of the European Parliament) and

3 Oct 2024 · Social and Inclusive Growth

Meeting with Tilly Metz (Member of the European Parliament)

1 Oct 2024 · Disability

Meeting with Pál Szekeres (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Sept 2024 · Exchange on current disability issues

Meeting with Miriam Lexmann (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Jul 2024 · Re-establishment of the Disability Intergroup

Meeting with Alex Agius Saliba (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Jul 2024 · To discuss the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and re-establishment of the Disability Intergroup at the European Parliament

Meeting with Ádám Kósa (Member of the European Parliament) and

16 Apr 2024 · Social inclusion of people with disabilities

Meeting with Jan-Christoph Oetjen (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and

2 Apr 2024 · Stakeholder Meetings on Passenger Mobility Package

Meeting with Grace O'Sullivan (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Feb 2024 · The rights of people with disabilities in Ireland and Europe

Meeting with Abir Al-Sahlani (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

15 Feb 2024 · EU Talent Pool

Meeting with Cyrus Engerer (Member of the European Parliament)

1 Feb 2024 · TCN disability file

Meeting with Beatrice Covassi (Member of the European Parliament)

30 Nov 2023 · European Day of Persons with Disabilities 2023

Meeting with Patrizia Toia (Member of the European Parliament)

29 Nov 2023 · Disability Week

Response to Administrative burden

28 Nov 2023

Meeting with Magda Kopczynska (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

31 Oct 2023 · Upcoming review of the passenger rights regulation

Meeting with Nicola Danti (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

30 Oct 2023 · European Disability Card

Meeting with João Albuquerque (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

25 Oct 2023 · Disability Card

Meeting with Sirpa Pietikäinen (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Oct 2023 · Social Taxonomy

Meeting with María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

19 Oct 2023 · Revision of the Victims Rights Directive

Meeting with Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

11 Oct 2023 · European Disability Card and the European Parking Card

Meeting with Katrin Langensiepen (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

18 Sept 2023 · Disability Card

Meeting with Ciarán Cuffe (Member of the European Parliament) and Fédération Européenne d'Associations Nationales Travaillant avec les Sans-Abri

18 Jul 2023 · Exhibition opening event on homelessness

Meeting with Abir Al-Sahlani (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Jun 2023 · Conference Of States Parties To The Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities

Meeting with Ilana Cicurel (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

6 Jun 2023 · Implementation of the CERV programme - Meeting with the Senior Policy Coordinator of the European Disability Forum

Meeting with Brando Benifei (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

2 Jun 2023 · Discussion on the AI Act (meeting held by the Assistant responsible)

Meeting with Helena Dalli (Commissioner) and

28 May 2023 · Commissioner intervenes at the European Disability Forum, in occasion of the General Assembly.

Meeting with Brando Benifei (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

8 May 2023 · Call on the AI Act implications for persons with disabilities (meeting taken by the APA responsible))

Meeting with Adina-Ioana Vălean (Commissioner) and

3 May 2023 · Transport and disability

Meeting with Věra Jourová (Vice-President)

2 May 2023 · Political participation of persons with disabilities

Meeting with Karima Delli (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

2 May 2023 · European Disability Forum

Meeting with Abir Al-Sahlani (Member of the European Parliament)

31 Mar 2023 · Disability Rights in Europe - the way forward

Meeting with Ildikó Voller-Szenci (Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi)

22 Mar 2023 · The inclusion of persons with disabilities in the EU neighborhood policies

Meeting with Tomasz Frankowski (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and

21 Mar 2023 · The future of the European book sector-consultation meeting with stakeholders

Meeting with Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner) and

1 Dec 2022 · Speech at the 2nd GAP III Structured Dialogue with CSOs

Meeting with Helena Dalli (Commissioner) and

24 Nov 2022 · Disability rights including the situation of persons with disabilities in Ukraine, independent living and deinstitutionalisation, the upcoming European Disability Card initiative, passengers rights and the Equal Treatment Directive proposal.

Meeting with Laurence Farreng (Member of the European Parliament) and European Youth Forum

9 Nov 2022 · Rémunération des stages en Europe

Meeting with Frances Fitzgerald (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and

27 Oct 2022 · Proposal for a Directive on combatting violence against women and domestic violence

Meeting with Petra Kammerevert (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and

12 Oct 2022 · Implementierung AVMD

Meeting with Lesia Radelicki (Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli)

13 Sept 2022 · Meeting on Directive Violence Against Women

Meeting with Alex Agius Saliba (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Jul 2022 · Towards Equal Rights for Persons with disabilities in the EU

Meeting with Helena Dalli (Commissioner) and

6 Apr 2022 · Cabinet Dalli invited Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to discuss concerns equality and non-discrimination CSOs are raising regarding the situation of people fleeing from the Ukraine

Meeting with Annelisa Cotone (Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli), Joseph Vella (Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli)

13 Jan 2022 · Exchange on EU disability policies, including the new Disability Platform.

Meeting with Eva Gerhards (Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli), Silvan Agius (Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli) and

22 Mar 2021 · Exchange of Views on the Transition from institutional to Community-based Care.

Meeting with Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner) and

14 Dec 2020 · Meeting on the European Disability Strategy.

Meeting with Filomena Chirico (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

16 Sept 2020 · Fostering attention to accessibility in EU legislation

Meeting with Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner) and

28 May 2020 · Roundtable with Civil Society (NGOs)-The EU global response to COVID-19

Meeting with Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner) and

29 Apr 2020 · Videoconference meeting on social support care service and COVID-19

Meeting with Dubravka Šuica (Vice-President) and

29 Apr 2020 · Social Services in Europe, Statutory Duties of Public Social Services, Explanation, Impact & challenges of COVID-19, Elderly, Role of the EU, Rights of persons with disabilities, social dialogue & cross-sectoral social dialogue

Meeting with Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner) and

29 Apr 2020 · VC meeting on the Impact of COVID-19 on Social Services and the risks for persons in vulnerable situations

Meeting with Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner) and International Disability and Development Consortium

5 Mar 2020 · Discussion on inclusive international partnerships

Meeting with Adina-Ioana Vălean (Commissioner) and

4 Mar 2020 · The rights of persons with disabilities in transport and mobility files

Meeting with Monika Ladmanova (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová)

25 Feb 2020 · the rights of persons with disabilities

Meeting with Mónica Silvana González (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Feb 2020 · Disability

Meeting with Janez Lenarčič (Commissioner) and

6 Feb 2020 · The situation of persons with disabilities in the context of humanitarian aid and civil protection

Meeting with Iratxe García Pérez (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Jan 2020 · Political priorities of people with disabilities

Meeting with Sarah Nelen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

22 Jan 2020 · Green Deal/Sustainability and accessibility

Meeting with Nora Bednarski (Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli)

7 Jan 2020 · Future EU disability policy including UN CRPD implementation, disability mainstreaming and follow-up to the 2010-2020 disability strategy.

Meeting with Helena Dalli (Commissioner)

12 Dec 2019 · Meeting on the disability strategy

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President)

20 Mar 2019 · EU policies concerning persons with disabilities and future approach

Meeting with Jocelyn Fajardo (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc) and AGE Platform Europe

31 Jan 2019 · Transport matters

Meeting with Joost Korte (Director-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion)

24 Jan 2019 · Meeting on disability related policies, legislation and the EU budget

Meeting with Marianne Thyssen (Commissioner)

12 Jul 2018 · European disability policy

Meeting with Christos Stylianides (Commissioner)

28 Nov 2017 · Disabilities - Humanitarian Aid

Meeting with Corina Crețu (Commissioner)

18 Jul 2017 · Impact of Cohesion Policy changes on the persons with disablities.

Meeting with Davinia Wood (Cabinet of Commissioner Christos Stylianides), Themis Christophidou (Cabinet of Commissioner Christos Stylianides), Zacharias Giakoumis (Cabinet of Commissioner Christos Stylianides) and

28 Jun 2017 · Taking into account the needs of people with disabilities in humanitarian action

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

9 Mar 2017 · diversity & inclusion

Meeting with Christos Stylianides (Commissioner)

21 Jun 2016 · Integration of disability issues in humaitarian aid

Meeting with Violeta Bulc (Commissioner) and

26 Jan 2016 · Meeting EDF representatives

Meeting with Marianne Thyssen (Commissioner)

29 Oct 2015 · EU disability policy priorities

Meeting with Marianne Thyssen (Commissioner)

20 Apr 2015 · European Disability Policy

Meeting with Neven Mimica (Commissioner)

5 Mar 2015 · The inclusion of persons with disabilities in lower and middle income countries through Commissioner’s work over the next 5 years.

Meeting with Věra Jourová (Commissioner) and

16 Feb 2015 · Equal Treatment Directive

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President) and

9 Jan 2015 · Roundtable with NGO's on fundamental rights

Meeting with Věra Jourová (Commissioner) and

9 Jan 2015 · Roundtable with NGOs on fundamental rights and non-discrimination