IKV Chairperson Ayhan Zeytinoğlu met with Vice-President of the European Commission Margaritis Schinas on 14 November 2023 as part of the visit of the TOBB delegation led by TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu. During the meeting, issues regarding the revitalization of Türkiye-EU relations and cooperation opportunities between business organizations were discussed. Vice-President of the Commission Margaritis Schinas is responsible for issues such as European lifestyle, migration and asylum pact, European security union, hybrid threats, skills agenda, and European education area. Schinas, who spent a period as an intern at IKV during his student years, is known as an EU official who is close to Türkiye.