Andor Deli · Independent EU advice
Former Member of the European Parliament · 2014–2024
Make a sound business decision on an EU issue. Strengthen your organisation’s policy position. Prepare your leadership and team for an important institutional discussion.
I work with companies, associations and advisory teams that need experienced EU political judgment. Drawing on ten years inside the European Parliament, I help assess your options, challenge your arguments and prepare effective engagement. You work directly with me, on a focused assignment or through continuing senior advice.
Preparing for Parliament? Explore coaching and meeting rehearsal.
Transport, energy and European connectivity. Wider EU policy enquiries welcome.
Experience behind the advice
Selected examples from my policy and advisory work.
European Parliament
As Parliament’s rapporteur for the Electronic Freight Transport Information Regulation, I worked with stakeholder arguments, amendment choices and negotiations with the Council and Commission. That experience informs how I advise clients today: testing whether a request is workable, anticipating objections and identifying where evidence or compromise could strengthen the case.
View the parliamentary recordEU regulatory intelligence
I work with an IT company on the development and commercialisation of an AI-based EU regulatory monitoring platform. My contribution includes shaping the product, advising on parliamentary users’ needs and supporting market entry.
Discuss your projectServices
Start with the decision, position or discussion you need to prepare. We agree the objective, relevant material and deadline, then identify the support that will be most useful. I work directly with management or alongside your policy, technical and legal advisers.
01 · TEST AND STRENGTHEN YOUR CASE
Build a request that stands up to political scrutiny.
I help your organisation define what it wants to achieve, assess what is politically and institutionally realistic, and decide how to make the case. We connect your commercial or organisational objective with a credible public-policy argument, the appropriate audience and the timing of the decision. The work can begin with an existing paper or with a request that still needs to be developed.
I examine your position paper, consultation response or proposed meeting message against your objective, evidence and deadline. The review tests the feasibility of the request, its public-policy justification, likely objections and possible compromises.
This is particularly useful when your organisation already has strong technical or regulatory expertise and wants an experienced external adviser to challenge its political case.
For issues Parliament can address, I bring a former legislator’s perspective to the review. I assess how the request fits the stage of the file, relevant political groups’ documented positions and the responsibilities of the offices you intend to approach.
We develop messages suited to those audiences, identify sensitive points and prepare responses to likely questions. I distinguish established positions from my assessment of possible reactions. The review can also identify whether another institution is the more useful starting point.
Depending on the assignment, you receive an annotated or developed position and a concise assessment of the strongest request, supporting evidence, likely objections and possible compromises. Recommendations identify whom to engage, what to prepare and when. A discussion with your team helps resolve the choices that matter before the position is used.
A trade association seeks more time to implement a proposed requirement. Its paper explains members’ costs but leaves unanswered why a delay would serve the policy objective or be fair to organisations that have already invested. I help define a more precise request, strengthen the evidence and prepare arguments addressing the concerns of the parliamentary audiences involved.
I can also advise management or an advisory board on EU policy questions and challenge assumptions before important decisions.
02 · UNDERSTAND THE FILE
Get the analysis you need for a specific decision.
When an EU development could affect an investment, product, market-entry plan or member briefing, the starting point is the decision you need to make—and the date by which you need an answer.
I work backwards from that decision to identify the relevant rules or proposals, their status, the possible implications and the information still missing. Your briefing sets out what management should consider now, which assumptions need checking and what developments deserve continuing attention.
Where Parliament has a role, I add a review informed by ten years inside the institution. This examines the Commission proposal alongside relevant committee or plenary positions, explains significant changes and assesses the remaining opportunities.
The briefing connects the legislative text with its political context: the responsible committees and offices, documented political positions, sensitive issues and the next decision points.
An executive briefing organised around your decision, with the relevant text, procedural stage, possible business effects, unresolved questions and response options. The parliamentary layer can include a comparison of positions and recommendations on what to prepare before the next institutional decision.
A freight-technology company must decide whether to fund a product adaptation before its next customer tender. Its team has seen reports of proposed EU changes but cannot distinguish existing obligations from proposals still being negotiated. My briefing identifies what currently applies, which proposed changes could affect the product and what management should track before committing development resources.
03 · PREPARE YOUR TEAM
Good preparation is essential to effective parliamentary engagement.
A technically sound position needs a clear understanding of the political context, policy realities and sensitivities surrounding the issue. Your team should know what matters to its audience, which arguments deserve emphasis and where difficult questions are likely to arise.
I prepare executives, association leaders and public-affairs teams for important parliamentary discussions. The support can help an experienced team test its approach, a senior delegation prepare a specific meeting, or colleagues strengthen their engagement skills. We work with your own issue, evidence and intended audience.
Drawing on ten years as an MEP, I help your team understand how its request may be received inside Parliament. We examine the relevant political groups’ documented positions, test the supporting evidence and develop messages suited to the offices you intend to approach.
A tailored preparation session or team workshop using your own issue, briefing and intended audience. You leave with stronger messages, a rehearsed presentation, responses to likely objections and a meeting action plan.
An association’s director and senior policy team are preparing discussions with parliamentary offices from several political groups. Their technical evidence is strong, but they need to agree a precise request and explain it in ways that address each audience’s priorities. We test the argument, prepare responses to difficult questions and rehearse the discussion, keeping the request and evidence consistent.
04 · PARTICIPATE AND FOLLOW THROUGH
Personal support for meetings, representation and continuing work in Brussels.
I support organisations that need an experienced adviser in Brussels for a particular engagement or continuing work. This can include preparing and participating in institutional discussions, communicating an agreed position and following through afterwards. I can work directly with management or contribute alongside your existing public-affairs team.
A clear meeting objective, a concise briefing, personal support in Brussels and an account of the discussion and agreed next steps.
A practical starting assignment
Bring the issue, intended recipient and purpose of the visit. We agree the messages, preparation and role you need me to take. The assignment can cover preparation, participation and written follow-up.
For issues that require attention over time, I provide continuing senior advice alongside management or your existing team. We agree priorities and a regular review rhythm for interpreting developments, testing positions and preparing successive decisions. Engagement and representation can form part of the assignment where useful. The arrangement gives you a consistent adviser who understands the issue and can revisit recommendations as circumstances change.
Consultancies and law firms can involve me in defined client assignments requiring political review, parliamentary insight, executive preparation or Brussels support. I contribute alongside your team, with responsibilities, client contact and attribution agreed at the outset. My Central European and Western Balkan experience can also support assignments with a regional dimension.
Areas of experience
My sector experience spans transport, mobility, freight digitalisation, energy and European connectivity, including hydrogen, batteries, charging infrastructure and cross-border cooperation. It also includes telecommunications questions such as roaming.
I advise companies, associations and advisory teams on EU policy questions affecting business decisions and institutional engagement. Assignments can involve strengthening a policy position, interpreting a development, preparing a discussion or providing continuing senior input.
For work involving Central Europe and the Western Balkans, I bring additional regional knowledge and relationships. This can help an EU-based organisation assess a cross-border policy issue, understand the regional context or identify relevant partners.
Targeted matchmaking can complement the advice where there is a clear shared interest. I help identify relevant associations, business partners, advisers and regional organisations, and facilitate introductions around a defined objective.
Discuss your question or partnership needsAbout Andor Deli
I am a Brussels-based EU policy and regulatory consultant with legal training and more than twenty years of experience in public administration and European affairs.
As a Member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2024, I assessed proposals, heard stakeholder positions and negotiated legislation as rapporteur. My career also includes work as Ministerial Commissioner for European Connectivity in Hungary and regional government roles in Vojvodina, Serbia. This background brings an understanding of Central Europe and the Western Balkans to my experience of EU decision-making.
I work directly with companies, associations, NGOs, public bodies and consultancies. Some clients need a second perspective on a position their team has already developed. Others want help understanding an EU issue or preparing an important discussion. I take time to understand the task, offer a candid assessment and help you decide what to do next.
Discuss your question
Brussels Engagement Assessment
Answer nine questions about your organisation, possible EU effects and the decision ahead. See an initial indication and suggested next steps.
Your result may point to internal review, monitoring, targeted advice or further consideration of engagement.
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Contact
A focused first conversation
Tell me about the EU issue, business decision or institutional discussion you are preparing, and any relevant deadline. You can also contact me about continuing advisory support or cooperation on a client assignment. I will respond to discuss the task and whether my experience can help.
You can contact me in English, Hungarian, Serbian or German.
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EU Policy & Regulatory Consultant
Brussels, Belgium
