A group of European MEPs, including Austrians Paul Rübig and Claudia Schmidt, visited San Francisco on May 18 and 19, 2016. Besides their official program, they met with European expats at the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco and with the Austrian community at a „Stammtisch,“ which welcomed the Austrian MEPs and the Austrian Consul General in Los Angeles, Ulrike Ritzinger, in a convivial ambience.