Wopke Hoekstra's Cabinet

Email: cab-hoekstra-contact@ec.europa.eu
Postal address: Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 200
1049 Brussels
Belgium

Press contacts

Johannes ten Broeke

HEAD OF CABINET

Email: johannes.ten-broeke@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 13455

Responsibilities

Overall strategy, management and coordination of the Cabinet
Relations with the President’s Cabinet
Preparation of the College

Astrid Dentler

DEPUTY HEAD OF CABINET

Email: astrid.dentler@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 63310

Responsibilities

Deputising for the Head of Cabinet
Human resources, budget and security
Commission Work Programme
Coordination of strategic agenda planning
Coordination of relations with DG CLIMA and DG TAXUD
Group of Inter-institutional Relations (GRI)
Coordination of ENVI Council and ECOFIN Council
Ethics and Transparency
Climate adaptation
Incentivising investments, sustainable finance

Responsibilities outside the portfolio

European Semester, Euro, economic and financial affairs
Recovery and Resilience Task Force (RECOVER)
Statistics (Eurostat)
Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
Relations with financial institutions
Relations with the EEA and Switzerland

Country coordinator: Germany, Austria

Patrice Pillet

CABINET EXPERT

Email: patrice.pillet@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 91993

Responsibilities

VAT, including greening the VAT system
Energy Taxation
Other excise duties including tobacco and alcohol
Financial Sector Taxation
Fight against tax fraud and administrative cooperation in indirect taxation
Digitalisation and innovation in the area of taxation
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

Responsibilities outside the portfolio

Legal affairs, coordination of infringements
Competition and State aid
Relations with the UK
Customs
Internal market
Anti-fraud and audit

Country coordinator: France, Bulgaria, Romania

Olivia Gippner

MEMBER

Email: olivia.gippner@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 91754

Responsibilities

Climate diplomacy: multilateral climate negotiations, G20/G7, international climate finance, bilateral climate relations
External Policy Coordination (EXCO)
2040 climate target – European Climate Law
Climate ETS
Single Market for CO2
Carbon capture, transport, usage and storage
Fossil fuel subsidies
Innovation fund, CINEA
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

Responsibilities outside the portfolio

Trade and Clean Trade and Investment Partnerships
Environment

Country coordinator: Germany, Malta

Myriam Jans

MEMBER

Email: myriam.jans@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 95405

Responsibilities

Strategic political and personal advice
Strategic agenda planning
Media strategy
Dutch press and communication
Relations with Dutch stakeholders, including businesses and other organisations
Support to relations with the European Parliament
Relations with national parliaments
Climate disinformation

Responsibilities outside the portfolio

Neighbourhood and enlargement
Home affairs, migration
Defence Industry and Space

Country coordinator: Netherlands, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

Katarina Köszeghy

MEMBER

Email: katarina.koszeghy@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 13602

Responsibilities

Corporate taxation
Decluttering
Fight against tax fraud, tax evasion and tax avoidance and administrative cooperation in direct taxation
International taxation, including UN, OECD, G20/G7
OECD Pillar 1, including digital taxation
OECD Pillar 2
Dispute resolution
Seize and freeze task force

Responsibilities outside the portfolio

Justice and Consumers
Rule of Law
MFF, budget
Better regulation and simplification

Country coordinator: Luxembourg, Slovakia, Czechia

Matthieu Moulonguet

MEMBER

Email: matthieu.moulonguet@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 62537

Responsibilities

National Energy and Climate Plans
Effort-Sharing Regulation
Land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF)
Carbon removal certification
Corsia, IMO
Back-up to Climate ETS
Transport

Responsibilities outside the portfolio

Transport and tourism
Regional and Urban Policy
Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

Country coordinator: Hungary, Sweden, Finland

Miguel Garcia Jones

PERSONAL ASSISTANT/ MEMBER

Email: miguel-jose.garcia-jones@ec.europa.eu

Phone number: +32 2 29 89254

Responsibilities

Clean Industrial Deal and Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act
Outreach and dialogue: industry, business, SMEs
European net zero infrastructure
Energy: renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy-intensive industries
Climate Research and Innovation
Innovation fund, CINEA
Montreal Protocol, ozone depleting substances and fluorinated gases
Relations with the European Parliament
Parliamentary questions
Relations with the Committee of the Regions, the European Economic and Social Committee, Ombudsman

Responsibilities outside the portfolio