Warning lights
Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 1 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Busy address KBO
21 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
POLITICO from Brussel, company number BE0526900436, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -1.8 million after tax. For that financial year POLITICO recorded revenue of € 47.8 million and equity of € -1.6 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -313,217 to € -1.8 million. The company made a loss. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 6, 2026.
€ -1.6 million
▼ € 1.8 million vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -1.8 million
▼ 471 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.5 million
▲ 68% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -1.7 million.
People and assets in 2025
316.8
▼ 35.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 30 million
▲ 5% vs 2024
€ 94,700 per full-time equivalent. Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 276,708
▼ 17% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 2.8 million
▼ 48% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 57 days on average.
€ 4.5 million
▼ 16% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 35,427,234 | € 41,193,035 | € 45,407,041 | € 47,781,958 | ▲ 5% |
| Profit after taxes | € 4,224,334 | € 2,468,012 | € -313,217 | € -1,789,558 | ▼ € 1.5 million |
| Equity | € 4,479,093 | € 547,104 | € 233,888 | € -1,555,670 | ▼ € 1.8 million |
| Total debts | € 31,953,472 | € 31,481,827 | € 27,494,123 | € 24,331,079 | ▼ 12% |
| Cash | € 13,906,207 | € 3,649,118 | € 921,069 | € 1,549,379 | ▲ 68% |
| Retained profit | € 4,358,636 | € 426,647 | € 113,431 | € -1,676,127 | ▼ € 1.8 million |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 6,400,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 36,684,565 | € 32,425,934 | € 28,112,597 | € 23,265,946 | ▼ 17% |
| Employees (FTE) | 184.2 | 251.7 | 352.2 | 316.8 | ▼ 35.4 |
Key figures of POLITICO, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 July 2027.
What happened to POLITICO?
What happened at POLITICO in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 1.8 million. Source: NBB ↗
- JAMIL ANDERLINI became a director. NBB
- DARIANNE GESSNER became a director. NBB
- JULIA WEHRLE became a director. NBB
- GOLNAR SHEIKHOLESLAMI became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Brussel. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 4.2 million profit in 2022 to € 1.8 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 1.4 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 4.2 million profit.
Paid out € 6.4 million in dividends to the owners in total.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
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What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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Management
Behind POLITICO are DARIANNE GESSNER, JULIA WEHRLE, GOLNAR SHEIKHOLESLAMI and JAMIL ANDERLINI. It owns 30% of European Business Leaders'Club itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
DARIANNE GESSNER
Director
since 2025
JULIA WEHRLE
Director
since 2025
GOLNAR SHEIKHOLESLAMI
Director
since 2022
JAMIL ANDERLINI
Director
since 2025
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Wetstraat 62
1040 Brussel
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Details
- Company number
- 0526.900.436
- VAT number
- BE 0526.900.436
- Registered office
- Wetstraat 62, 1040 Brussel
- Names & denominations
- POLITICO
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 18 April 2013
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