Figure 14 – Extrapolated data on EU leaders’ meetings and their reporting on them via Twitter

When comparing the total number of meetings per EU leader reported via Twitter, with the total number of tweets per leader on these meetings with other EU leaders, it is evident that this relation is not always proportional. The four EU leaders with most contact with other EU leaders (Charles Michel, Angela Merkel, Sebastian Kurz and Kyriakos Mitsokakis were also among the top six leaders tweeting about these contacts. However, two of the leaders with most tweets on meetings with other EU leaders, Mateusz Morawiecki and Peter Pellegrini, held relatively few meetings. Others, such as Alexis Tsipras and Mette Frederiksen reported extensively about their meetings on the Twitter platform, but actually held relatively few meetings with their peers