U.S. TECH COMPANIES LOBBYING THE EU

US tech companies are gradually becoming aware that the success of their business model in Europe depends on influencing the regulatory framework in Brussels. Half of the top 10 most influential companies lobbying the Commission are from the US and with the exception of General Electric all of them are primarily software companies. Their dominance of the lobbying scene is particularly strong in the area of the digital single market and the digital economy.

Annual reported EU lobbying expenditures by Silicon Valley Companies (2017)

Source: Lobbyfacts.eu

1. Google: € 4,250,000
2. Facebook: € 1,000,000
3. Cisco: € 1,000,000
4. Qualcomm: € 900,000
5. Apple: € 800,000
6. Oracle: € 800,000
7. Symantec: € 800,000
8. Netflix: € 800,000
9. Salesforce: € 700,000
10. Uber: € 400,000
11. eBay: € 400,000
12. Dropbox: € 300,000
13. Paypal: € 300,000
14. Yahoo!: € 300,000
15. Tesla: € 150,000
16. LinkedIn: € 120,000
17. TripAdvisor: € 100,000
18. Mozilla: € 100,000
19. Airbnb: € 100,000
20. 23andMe: € 50,000
21. Yelp: € 50,000
22. Adobe: € 50,000
23. Twitter: € 25,000
24. WMware: € 100,000