Mastercard Europe
Mastercard is a driving force at the heart of commerce, enabling global transactions and building economic connections to make commerce faster, more convenient, more secure, and more valuable to everyone involved.
Lobbying Activity
Meeting with Victor Negrescu (Member of the European Parliament)
20 Nov 2025 · Preparation of Mastercard Strive Event
Meeting with Auke Zijlstra (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
16 Oct 2025 · Digital euro
Meeting with Maria Zafra Saura (Cabinet of Commissioner Michael McGrath)
15 Oct 2025 · Data protection
Response to Digital Omnibus revising several legislative acts in view of regulatory simplification
14 Oct 2025
Meeting with Mattias Levin (Acting Head of Unit Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)
10 Oct 2025 · Brief discussion of outstanding issues in proposed framework for financial data access in light of ongoing interinstitutional negotiations with a particular focus on fraud protection.
Meeting with Victor Negrescu (Member of the European Parliament)
17 Sept 2025 · Impact CEE Bucharest 2025
Response to European wallets for business
12 Jun 2025
Meeting with Ioan-Dragos Tudorache (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné)
12 Jun 2025 · E-commerce and AI policy in the EU
Meeting with Eric Ducoulombier (Acting Director Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union) and
12 Jun 2025 · Courtesy visit
Meeting with Ioana-Maria Gligor (Head of Unit Secretariat-General)
10 Jun 2025 · Exchange of views on EU digital policy
Meeting with Michael McGrath (Commissioner) and
20 May 2025 · Exchange on simplification, data protection and online fraud prevention
Meeting with Valdis Dombrovskis (Commissioner) and
19 May 2025 · Digital euro
Meeting with Niels Flemming Hansen (Member of the European Parliament)
14 May 2025 · Roadmap to more competitive European SMEs
Meeting with Eric Ducoulombier (Acting Director Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)
8 May 2025 · Discussed innovative, evolving retail payments
Meeting with Fernando Navarrete Rojas (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and EPI Company
2 May 2025 · Euro Digital
Meeting with Jonás Fernández (Member of the European Parliament)
24 Apr 2025 · Economic priorities and digital euro
Meeting with Pablo Arias Echeverría (Member of the European Parliament)
24 Apr 2025 · Electronic payments, Data protection, and Cybersecurity
Meeting with Isabel Benjumea Benjumea (Member of the European Parliament)
24 Apr 2025 · ECON
Meeting with Stephen Nikola Bartulica (Member of the European Parliament)
8 Apr 2025 · Digital euro
Meeting with Arba Kokalari (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
27 Mar 2025 · AI in Financial Services
Meeting with Denis Nesci (Member of the European Parliament) and Cattaneo Zanetto Pomposo Co.
26 Mar 2025 · Eurodigitale e turismo
Meeting with Pasquale Tridico (Member of the European Parliament)
25 Mar 2025 · Meeting with Mastercard
Meeting with Mattias Levin (Acting Head of Unit Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)
25 Mar 2025 · Discussion on the Financial Information Data Access proposal (FIDA) and the AI framework
Meeting with Eric Ducoulombier (Head of Unit Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)
6 Mar 2025 · General catch-up on payments priorities and files
Meeting with Kinga Kollár (Member of the European Parliament)
5 Mar 2025 · payment service legislation (PSD3/PSR)
Meeting with Alice Guedel (Cabinet of Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque), Cristina Dias (Cabinet of Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque)
5 Mar 2025 · Mastercard Europe presented their company and activities, sharing an overview of the different services they offer.
Meeting with Antti Timonen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen), Marlene Rosemarie Madsen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen)
18 Feb 2025 · Competitiveness and cybersecurity and digital agenda in the European Union
Meeting with Hubert Gambs (Deputy Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
18 Feb 2025 · Presentation of Mastercard’s activities with a view to SMEs and potential link to the work of the European Commission
Meeting with Judit Rozsa (null Structural Reform Support)
17 Feb 2025 · Digitalisation of Public Administration in Europe
Meeting with Dirk Gotink (Member of the European Parliament)
17 Feb 2025 · Digital Euro and payment regulation
Meeting with Despina Spanou (Principal Adviser Communications Networks, Content and Technology)
14 Feb 2025 · Meeting in the margins of the Munich Cyber Security Conference on EU cybersecurity priorities and the role of public-private partnerships.
Response to Single Market Strategy 2025
31 Jan 2025
Meeting with Niels Flemming Hansen (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Jan 2025 · Priorities for the mandate
Meeting with Filippo Terruso (Cabinet of Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas)
23 Jan 2025 · Presentation by Mastercard of their activity in data collection and cooperation with Destinations for flow management, digitalisation of SMEs (Tourism Innovation hub). Presentation of their Mobility Innovation Hub
Meeting with Egelyn Braun (Cabinet of Commissioner Michael McGrath), Fiona Knab-Lunny (Cabinet of Commissioner Michael McGrath)
15 Jan 2025 · Exchange of views on the agenda of the European Commission, especially regarding the upcoming Digital Fairness Act and the consumer agenda
Meeting with Michalis Hadjipantela (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Nov 2024 · Meeting with Mastercard
Meeting with Gilles Boyer (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
27 Nov 2024 · Digital euro
Meeting with Zala Tomašič (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Nov 2024 · Digitalization and cybersecurity
Meeting with Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Nov 2024 · payment services market in Europe
Meeting with Sunčana Glavak (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Nov 2024 · Hybrid threats, cyber threats, challenges related to organized crime, aspects of financial fraud and money laundering, education
Meeting with Davor Ivo Stier (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Nov 2024 · Countering hybrid threats and challenges in the field of cyber security
Meeting with Eszter Lakos (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Nov 2024 · Digital policy
Meeting with Vasile Dîncu (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Nov 2024 · Improving Romanian tax policy
Meeting with Arba Kokalari (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Nov 2024 · Digital policy
Meeting with Kristian Vigenin (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Nov 2024 · State of play and future initiatives
Meeting with Stéphanie Yon-Courtin (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Nov 2024 · Payments / Competitiveness
Meeting with Ondřej Krutílek (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Nov 2024 · Innovation in digital sector and EU legislative
Meeting with Morten Løkkegaard (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Nov 2024 · Digital European economy
Meeting with Lukas Mandl (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Nov 2024 · Digital Euro
Meeting with Dirk Gotink (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Nov 2024 · Payment services and digital euro
Meeting with Nicola Zingaretti (Member of the European Parliament)
26 Nov 2024 · digital currency and networks
Meeting with Victor Negrescu (Member of the European Parliament)
26 Nov 2024 · Competitiveness, innovation and digital transformation
Meeting with Nikolina Brnjac (Member of the European Parliament)
26 Nov 2024 · Meeting on priorities in area of tourism
Meeting with Francesco Torselli (Member of the European Parliament)
26 Nov 2024 · Incontro conoscitivo per discutere delle problematiche del sistema dei pagamenti digitali
Response to WHITE PAPER How to master Europe's digital infrastructure needs?
30 Jun 2024
Meeting with Alviina Alametsä (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Jun 2024 · Exchange of views
Meeting with Despina Spanou (Cabinet of Vice-President Margaritis Schinas)
4 Jun 2024 · Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Skills Academy, opening of Mastercard's first European Cyber Resilience Centre in Waterloo Belgium
Meeting with John Berrigan (Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)
29 May 2024 · Transition towards a vibrant digital economy through supporting Fintech and harnessing innovation in the payments market.
Meeting with Alfred Sant (Member of the European Parliament)
6 Mar 2024 · Financial data access
Meeting with Michiel Hoogeveen (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Visa Europe
11 Jan 2024 · Digital euro
Meeting with Jörgen Warborn (Member of the European Parliament) and SME Connect
29 Nov 2023 · Småföretagarfrågor
Meeting with István Ujhelyi (Member of the European Parliament)
29 Nov 2023 · EU Relations
Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová)
20 Nov 2023 · Fraud prevention and the AI Act, G7 Code of Conduct
Meeting with Eero Heinäluoma (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
15 Nov 2023 · Framework for Financial Data Access and amending Regulations (EU) No 1093/2010, (EU) No 1094/2010, (EU) No 1095/2010 and (EU) 2022/2554.
Meeting with Nicolo Brignoli (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)
24 Oct 2023 · Economy, digital resilience, digital euro
Meeting with Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
11 Oct 2023 · Approach to GDPR and Data Responsibility, Artificial intelligence act, Mastercard's European footprint
Meeting with Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner) and
10 Oct 2023 · Digital Payments
Meeting with Stefan Berger (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
10 Oct 2023 · Digital Euro
Meeting with Irene Tinagli (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)
21 Sept 2023 · Introductory Meeting
Meeting with Annelisa Cotone (Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli)
20 Sept 2023 · Inclusion and diversity
Meeting with Angelika Winzig (Member of the European Parliament)
18 Sept 2023 · Strive EU
Meeting with Ondřej Kovařík (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and FTI Consulting Belgium
15 Sept 2023 · PSD III
Meeting with Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner) and
22 Jun 2023 · Digital Finance
Meeting with Geneviève Tuts (Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders), Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders)
25 May 2023 · Data protection and AI.
Meeting with Florian Denis (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness), Patricia Reilly (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness)
25 May 2023 · payments, digital transformation
Meeting with John Berrigan (Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)
24 May 2023 · Digital Euro, PSD2 review, and sanctions
Meeting with Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General Legal Service)
24 May 2023 · Courtesy visit
Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)
16 May 2023 · digital transition
Meeting with Valeria Miceli (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)
11 May 2023 · EU payment system, digital means of payment and the digital euro.
Meeting with Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)
11 May 2023 · EU SME policies
Response to Initiative on virtual worlds, such as metaverse
3 May 2023
Meeting with Tsvetelina Penkova (Member of the European Parliament) and
28 Apr 2023 · EUROFI
Meeting with Florian Denis (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness) and FTI Consulting Belgium
12 Apr 2023 · Digital euro, Crypto finance
Meeting with Simon Genevaz (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)
23 Mar 2023 · Exchange of views on the European payments landscape and preparing for CEO visit
Meeting with Paolo Gentiloni (Commissioner)
21 Mar 2023 · Exchange of views on economic outlook and financial services
Meeting with Helena Dalli (Commissioner) and
21 Mar 2023 · Meeting with Mastercard CEO to discuss Diversity in the workplace
Meeting with Margaritis Schinas (Vice-President) and
21 Mar 2023 · Ukraine, cyber-resilience and skills, combatting child sexual abuse online
Meeting with Marek Belka (Member of the European Parliament) and Fundacja Polska Bezgotówkowa
24 Feb 2023 · Payments Landscape in Poland + Preparation for the Event on Payments
Meeting with Sabine Weyand (Director-General Trade)
21 Feb 2023 · Trade Policy, digital transition.
Meeting with Mario Nava (Director-General Structural Reform Support)
21 Feb 2023 · Exchange views on digital transition and in particular on financial sector.
Meeting with Birgit Sippel (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
20 Feb 2023 · e-evidence (Staff-level)
Meeting with Gerassimos Thomas (Director-General Taxation and Customs Union)
2 Feb 2023 · Physical meeting - Introductory meeting and exchange of view on main challenges for tax policy in the EU
Meeting with Alin Mituța (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
15 Nov 2022 · Data Act
Meeting with Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner) and
27 Sept 2022 · Roundtable on Remittances to Ukraine
Meeting with Valeria Miceli (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)
19 Jul 2022 · Mastercard explained how they are helping Ukrainian people and companies and how they are implementing Eu sanctions.
Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and
15 Jun 2022 · Counterfeiting
Meeting with Alfred Sant (Member of the European Parliament)
22 Apr 2022 · general discussion (cyber, digital, future of payments)
Response to Regulation establishing a framework for the use of data in the EU
25 Jun 2021
Meeting with Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner) and
11 May 2021 · Payments
Meeting with Filomena Chirico (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)
10 May 2021 · Company policy for the Control of illicit pornography online
Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)
5 May 2021 · Artificial Intellligence
Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and
22 Apr 2021 · Toward a new governance framework for the data economy
Response to Initiative on instant payments in the EU
6 Apr 2021
Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament) and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited and its various subsidiaries
25 Mar 2021 · Artificial Intelligence
Meeting with Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness), Florian Denis (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness)
24 Mar 2021 · Retail payments strategy, open strategic autonomy
Meeting with Miapetra Kumpula-Natri (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
22 Mar 2021 · DGA
Meeting with Pablo Fabregas Martinez (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean)
17 Dec 2020 · Meeting to share aviation experience.
Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)
27 Nov 2020 · AI White Paper
Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President)
10 Sept 2020 · Green recovery, Green Deal objectives and role of the private sector
Meeting with John Berrigan (Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)
7 Sept 2020 · Digital finance and retail payments
Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)
27 Aug 2020 · Patronage vouchers
Meeting with Linsey Mccallum (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)
8 May 2020 · Travel vouchers – tourism package in response to COVID 19 crisis
Meeting with Geneviève Tuts (Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders)
28 Apr 2020 · COVID19 impact on the travel industry
Meeting with John Berrigan (Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union) and FTI Consulting Belgium
19 Feb 2020 · Digital payments, European payment infrastructure
Meeting with Olivier Guersent (Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)
3 Dec 2019 · State of play of a possible pan-European payments solution
Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and Weber Shandwick
20 Sept 2019 · Mastercard regulatory focusses and priorities
Meeting with Olivier Guersent (Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)
18 Sept 2019 · Latest developments in the payments field.
Meeting with Nathalie De Basaldua Lemarchand (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen), Paulina Dejmek Hack (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker)
12 Mar 2019 · EU Payments and Capital Markets Union
Meeting with Jolana Mungengova (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström), Pedro Velasco Martins (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström) and FTI Consulting Belgium
20 Feb 2019 · India - Trade barriers in financial sector
Meeting with Carl-Christian Buhr (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)
7 Sept 2018 · AI and privacy
Meeting with Nele Eichhorn (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström) and FTI Consulting Belgium
19 Apr 2018 · Trade in services and e-commerce
Meeting with Carl-Christian Buhr (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)
15 Nov 2017 · e-privacy
Meeting with Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip) and Weber Shandwick
22 Sept 2017 · ePrivacy
Meeting with David Boublil (Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici)
27 Jun 2017 · Discussion on the cash control proposal and pre-paid cards.
Meeting with Věra Jourová (Commissioner) and
6 Apr 2017 · Panel debate at Networking meeting with Czechs and Slovaks in Brussels
Meeting with Elina Melngaile (Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)
1 Feb 2017 · PSD2
Meeting with Isabelle Perignon (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)
30 Jan 2017 · AMLD
Meeting with Paulina Dejmek Hack (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker)
30 Jan 2017 · Financial services agenda
Meeting with Christos Stylianides (Commissioner)
23 May 2016 · private sector engagement in humanitarian aid
Meeting with Isabelle Perignon (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)
3 Feb 2016 · Combating terrorist financing
Meeting with Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)
28 Jan 2016 · Combatting terrorist financing
Meeting with Paulina Dejmek Hack (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker)
28 Jan 2016 · Action against terrorist financing/Prepaid cards
Meeting with Marlene Madsen (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)
27 Jan 2016 · Prepaid cards fraud
Meeting with Kevin O'Connell (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)
28 Sept 2015 · Data protection
Meeting with Denzil Davidson (Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill)
11 May 2015 · Financial Services Policy
Meeting with Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)
11 May 2015 · Development of electronic payment systems in Europe
Meeting with Denzil Davidson (Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill)
3 Dec 2014 · Financial Services Policy