Welcome to the Kangaroo Group
The Kangaroo Group is an association with the goal to enhance European Unity around the pursuit of concrete common projects. Its main goals are the full implementation of the Internal Market, the Stability of the Euro and a common Security and Defence Policy. The association started in 1979 as an informal gathering of Members of the European Institutions from different countries and political affiliations interested in breaking down the barriers between the Member States. The Kangaroo was chosen for the name of the group due to its ability to take big jumps over any boundaries although it only has a small pouch.
Today the Kangaroo Group is an association incorporated under Belgian law as a nonprofit organisation (aisbl). It has been entered into the Transparency Register of the European Union as a Think Tank. It is open to Representatives of the European Institutions, Academia, Media and the Business Community who are interested to foster these goals. It is not an Intergroup of the European Parliament. The motto of the Kangaroo Group is free movement and security. We choose our projects in consideration of the principle of subsidiarity.
News
At a lunchtime debate hosted at the European Parliament on 3rd December last, Kangaroo Group President, Michael Gahler MEP, presented a Certificate of Honour to long-standing Secretary of the Kangaroo Group's Financial Services Working Party, Dr. David P. Doyle, for his "exceptional commitment and dedication to the work of the Kangaroo Group.
The Citation commended Dr. Doyle, who has led the Financial Services Work Party for nearly 25 years, for his "invaluable contribution to the preparation and success of innumerable events". Mr Gahler noted in his statement that he had "significantly strengthened and contributed to the advancement of the Kangaroo Group's mission: to promote the Single Market."
Next Events
Kick-off event of our new Working Group on Energy
Dear Madam, Dear Sir,
The Kangaroo Group is pleased to invite you to the kick-off event of its new
Working Group on Energy
taking place on
Tuesday, 09 June 2026 at 13.00 hrs in the European Parliament Brussels, Salon Privé/Restaurant des Députés.
We will discuss: "How to complete the Energy Union?"
Welcome:
Michael GAHLER MEP, President of the Kangaroo Group
Chair:
Andrea WECHSLER MEP, Chair of the Working Group on Energy
Keynote Speech:
Dan JØRGENSEN, Commissioner for Energy and Housing
We are delighted to invite you to a closed-door, in-person policy roundtable
"Delivering Access for DIN Patients: From EU SoHo to Biotech Act"
10 June 2026 from 13:00 h to 15:00 h, ASP 8 F 388 at the European Parliament in Brussels on .
EPODIN (European Patient Organisation for Dysimmune and Inflammatory Neuropathies) represents patients living with severe and potentially life-threatening rare diseases such as CIDP, GBS and MMN. For most patients, plasma-derived immunoglobulins remain the only effective and life-saving treatment, yet access across Europe is increasingly fragile due to structural plasma shortages and uneven national implementation of EU frameworks. At the same time, innovative biotech therapies are emerging, offering new hope but also raising challenges related to affordability, availability, and equitable access.
This Round Table is designed as a strategic policy discussion on patient access architecture: How can the EU and Member States move from legislation and regulatory intent to actual treatment availability for patients with severe, rare, disabling neurological diseases ? At this occasion, EPODIN will present its EMA peer-reviewed “White Paper on Unmet DIN Needs” providing recommendations to support EU strategic autonomy in plasma-derived and innovative treatments. Related challenges as to EU SoHO, CMA, Biotech Act will be addressed.
Host:
Vytenis Povilas ANDRIUKAITIS MEP, Member of the Kangaroo Group
Co-Host:
Nicolas CASARES MEP
Moderator:
Tomasz Kluszczyinski (Aceso Healthcare)
Welcome & Political Framing :
Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis MEP/Nicolas Casares MEP and Jean-Philippe Plançon, EPODIN
Speakers include:
Professor Mark Stettner, University of Essen
Marian Ciopec, EPODIN
Tomasz Kluszczyinski (Aceso Healthcare)
Jean-Philippe Plançon, EPODIN
Stefaan van der Spiegel
Vanessa Bennett
MEP Vytenis Andriukaitis
MEP Nicolas Casares
MEP Nicolae Stefanuta
Dr Cesar Hernandez
Marilena Vrana, Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association (PPTA)
Bernardo Rodrigues, European Blood Alliance (EBA)
Stefano Romanelli, European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Enterprises (EUCOPE)
An event organised with EPODIN and the Kangaroo Group's Working Group on Health.
The Kangaroo Group aisbl
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Square de Meeûs 35
B-1000 BRUSSELS
email: office@kangaroogroup.eu
internet: www.kangaroogroup.eu
We are transparent and registered:
Kangaroo Group EU Transparency Register Number:
81031887403-27
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