The European People's Party Group (EPP Group) is a centre-right
political group of the European Parliament
The political groups of the European Parliament are the officially recognised political groups consisting of legislators of aligned ideologies in the European Parliament.
The European Parliament is unique among supranational assemblies in tha ...
consisting of
deputies
A legislator (also known as a deputy or lawmaker) is a person who writes and passes laws, especially someone who is a member of a legislature. Legislators are often elected by the people of the state. Legislatures may be supra-national (for ex ...
(MEPs) from the member parties of the
European People's Party (EPP). Sometimes it also includes independent MEPs and/or deputies from unaffiliated national parties.
The EPP Group comprises politicians of
Christian-democratic
Christian democracy (sometimes named Centrist democracy) is a political ideology that emerged in 19th-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching and neo-Calvinism.
It was conceived as a combination of modern democratic ...
,
conservative
Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization in ...
and
liberal-conservative
Liberal conservatism is a political ideology combining conservative policies with liberal stances, especially on economic issues but also on social and ethical matters, representing a brand of political conservatism strongly influenced by libe ...
orientation.
The
European People's Party was officially founded as a
European political party in 1976. However, the European People's Party Group in the
European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts ...
has existed in one form or another since June 1953, from the Common Assembly of the
European Coal and Steel Community, making it one of the oldest European-level political groups. It has been the largest political group in the European Parliament since 1999.
History
The Common Assembly of the
European Coal and Steel Community (the predecessor of the present day European Parliament) first met on 10 September 1952
and the first Christian Democratic Group was unofficially formed the next day, with
Maan Sassen as president.
The group held 38 of the 78 seats, two short of an absolute majority.
On 16 June 1953 the Common Assembly passed a resolution
[Common Assembly Resolution (16 June 1953) in ''Journal officiel de la CECA'', 21 July 1953, S. 155](_blank)
enabling the official formation of political groups, and on 23 June 1953 the constituent declaration
of the group was published and the group was officially formed.
![PollsEPP](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/PollsEPP.png)
The Christian Democrat group was the biggest group at formation, but as time wore on, it lost support and was the second-biggest group by the time of the 1979 elections. As the European Community expanded into the European Union, the dominant centre-right parties in the new member states were not necessarily Christian democratic, and the EPP (
European People's Party, the pan-continental political party founded in 1976, to which all group members are now affiliated) feared being sidelined.
To counter this, the EPP expanded its remit to cover the centre-right regardless of tradition and pursued a policy of integrating liberal-conservative parties.
This policy led to Greek
New Democracy
New Democracy, or the New Democratic Revolution, is a concept based on Mao Zedong's Bloc of Four Social Classes theory in post-revolutionary China which argued originally that democracy in China would take a path that was decisively distinc ...
and Spanish
People's Party MEPs joining the EPP Group.
The British
Conservative Party and Danish
Conservative People's Party tried to maintain a group of their own, named the ''
European Democrats
The European Democrats were a loose association of conservative political parties in Europe. It was a political group in the European Parliament from 1979 until 1992, when it became a subgroup of the European People's Party–European Democr ...
'' (ED), but lack of support and the problems inherent in maintaining a small group forced ED's collapse in the 1990s, and its members crossed the floor to join the EPP Group.
The parties of these MEPs also became full members of the EPP (with the exception of the British Conservative Party, which did not join) and this consolidation process of the European centre-right continued during the 1990s with the acquisition of members from the Italian party
Forza Italia. However, the consolidation was not unalloyed and a split emerged with the Eurosceptic MEPs who congregated in a subgroup within the Group, also called the ''European Democrats'' (ED).
Nevertheless, the consolidation held through the 1990s, assisted by the group being renamed the ''European People's Party – European Democrats'' (EPP-ED) Group, and after the
1999 European elections the EPP-ED reclaimed its position as the largest group in the Parliament from the
Party of European Socialists
The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a social democratic and progressive European political party.
The PES comprises national-level political parties from all member states of the European Union (EU) plus Norway and the United Kingdom. ...
(PES) Group.
Size was not enough, however: the group did not have a majority. It continued therefore to engage in the ''Grand Coalition'' (a coalition with the PES Group, or occasionally the Liberals) to generate the majorities required by the
cooperation procedure
The cooperation procedure (formally known as the Article 252 procedure) was one of the principal legislative procedures of the European Community, before the entrance into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam. It was retained after that treaty but onl ...
under the
Single European Act
The Single European Act (SEA) was the first major revision of the 1957 Treaty of Rome. The Act set the European Community an objective of establishing a single market by 31 December 1992, and a forerunner of the European Union's Common Forei ...
.
Meanwhile, the parties in the European Democrats subgroup were growing restless, with the establishment in July 2006 of the
Movement for European Reform
The Movement for European Reform, abbreviated to MER, was a pan-European alliance of national centre-right political parties with conservative, pro-free market and Eurosceptic inclinations. It consisted of the Conservative Party of the United Ki ...
,
and finally left following the 2009 elections, when the Czech
Civic Democratic Party and British Conservative Party formed their own right-wing ''
European Conservatives and Reformists'' (ECR) group on 22 June 2009, abolishing the European Democrats subgroup from that date. The EPP-ED Group reverted to its original name – the EPP Group – immediately.
In the
7th European Parliament
The seventh European Parliament was elected in the 2009 elections and lasted until the 2014 elections.
Major events
* 4–7 June 2009
** Elections to the Seventh Parliament.
* 14 July 2009
** First meeting (constitutive session) of the Sev ...
the EPP Group remained the largest parliamentary group with 275 MEPs. It is currently the only political group in the European parliament to fully represent its corresponding
European political party, i.e. the
European People's Party. The United Kingdom was the only member state to not be represented in the group; this state of affairs ceased temporarily on 28 February 2018, when two MEPs suspended from the British Conservative Party left the ECR group and joined the EPP. The two MEPs later joined a breakaway political party in the UK,
The Independent Group
The Independent Group for Change, also known as Change UK, was a British centrist, pro-European Union political party, founded in February 2019 and dissolved ten months later, shortly after all its MPs lost their seats in the 2019 general e ...
.
After twelve member parties in the EPP called for Hungary's
Fidesz
Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (; hu, Fidesz – Magyar Polgári Szövetség) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Hungary, led by Viktor Orbán.
It was formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young ...
's expulsion or suspension, Fidesz's membership was suspended with a common agreement on 20 March 2019. The suspension was applied only to the EPP but not to its group in the Parliament. On 3 March 2021, Fidesz decided to leave the EPP group, after the group's new rules, however still kept their membership in the party. On 18 March 2021, Fidesz decided to leave the
European People's Party.
In the
9th European Parliament
The ninth European Parliament was elected in the 2019 elections and is to last until the 2024 elections.
Major events
*23–26 May 2019
** Elections to the 9th European Parliament.
***EPP (182 seats), S&D (154), RE (108), Greens/EFA (74) ...
the EPP won 182 seats out of a total of 751. They formed a coalition with
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats and
Renew Europe to elect
Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (; Albrecht, born 8 October 1958) is a German politician who has been serving as the president of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019, holding suc ...
as
president of the European Commission.
Membership at formation
The 38 members in the group on 11 September 1952 were as follows:
Structure
Organisation
The EPP Group is governed by a collective (referred to as the ''Presidency'') that allocates tasks. The Presidency consists of the Group Chair and a maximum of ten Vice-Chairs, including the Treasurer. The day-to-day running of the EPP Group is performed by its secretariat in the European Parliament, led by its Secretary-General. The Group runs its own think-tank, the
European Ideas Network
The European Ideas Network is an open centre-right think tank sponsored by the EPP Group and based in the European Parliament in Brussels. The EIN works as a pan-European policy framework designed to promote new thinking on the key challenges f ...
, which brings together opinion-formers from across Europe to discuss issues facing the European Union from a centre-right perspective.
The EPP Group Presidency includes:
The chairs of the group and its predecessors from 1952 to 2020 are as follows:
Membership
9th European Parliament
Former members
7th and 8th European Parliament
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Humanist Democratic Centre
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Christian Social Party*
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Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria
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Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria
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Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party
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Union of Democrats and Independents
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Christian Social Union of Bavaria
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New Democracy
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Fine Gael
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Popular Alternative
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South Tyrolean People's Party
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Unity
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* Unity Building (Chicago), Illinois, US; a skyscraper
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Homeland Union
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– Lithuanian Christian Democrats
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french: link=no, Parti Populaire Chrétien Social
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Christian Social People's Party
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Christian Democratic Appeal
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Civic Platform
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Polish People's Party
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Social Democratic Party
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Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party
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Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania
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People's Movement Party
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Christian Democratic Movement
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Slovenian Democratic Party
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Change UK
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Activities
In the news
Activities performed by the group in the period between June 2004 and June 2008 include monitoring elections in Palestine
and Ukraine;
encouraging transeuropean rail travel,
telecoms deregulation,
energy security
Energy security is the association between national security and the availability of natural resources for energy consumption. Access to (relatively) cheap energy has become essential to the functioning of modern economies. However, the uneven d ...
,
a common energy policy,
the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the Union,
partial reform of the CAP
and attempts to tackle illegal immigration;
denouncing Russian involvement in South Ossetia;
supporting the Constitution Treaty
and the
Lisbon Treaty
The Treaty of Lisbon (initially known as the Reform Treaty) is an international agreement that amends the two treaties which form the constitutional basis of the European Union (EU). The Treaty of Lisbon, which was signed by the EU member sta ...
;
debating globalisation,
relations with China,
and Taiwan;
backing plans to outlaw Holocaust denial;
nominating Anna Politkovskaya for the 2007 Sakharov Prize;
expelling
Daniel Hannan from the Group;
[EurActiv article 170049](_blank)
the discussion about whether ED MEPs should remain within EPP-ED or form a group of their own;
[Times article 766719](_blank)
criticisms of the group's approach to tackling low turnout for the 2009 elections;
[EurActiv article 171155](_blank)
the group's use of the two-President arrangement;
and the group's proposal to ban the Islamic Burka dress across the EU.
Parliamentary activity profile
The debates and votes in the European Parliament are tracked by its website and categorised by the groups that participate in them and the rule of procedure that they fall into. The results give a profile for each group by category and the total indicates the group's level of participation in Parliamentary debates. The activity profile for each group for the period 1 August 2004 to 1 August 2008 in the Sixth Parliament is given on the diagram on the right. The group is denoted in blue.
The website shows the group as participating in 659 motions, making it the third most active group during the period.
Publications
The group produces many publications, which can be found on its website.
Documents produced in 2008 cover subjects such as dialogue with the Orthodox Church, study days, its strategy for 2008–09, Euro-Mediterranean relations, and the Lisbon Treaty. It also publishes a yearbook and irregularly publishes a presentation, a two-page summary of the group.
Academic analysis
The group has been characterised as a three-quarters-male group that, prior to ED's departure, was only 80% cohesive and split between centre-right Europhiles (the larger EPP subgroup) and right-wing Eurosceptics (the smaller ED subgroup). The group as a whole is described as ambiguous on hypothetical EU taxes, against taxation, Green issues,
social liberal
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issues (
LGBT rights
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Notably, ...
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abortion
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euthanasia) and full
Turkish accession to the European Union, and for a
deeper
Deeper may refer to:
Music Albums
* ''Deeper'' (Delirious? album) or the title song (see below), 2001
* ''Deeper'' (Lisa Stansfield album) or the title song, 2018
* ''Deeper'' (Meredith Andrews album) or the title song, 2016
* ''Deeper'' (The Sof ...
Federal Europe
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, deregulation, the
Common Foreign and Security Policy and controlling migration into the EU.
See also
*
European People's Party
*
Members of the European Parliament 2019-2024
Member may refer to:
* Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon
* Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set
* In object-oriented programming, a member of a class
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References
External links
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European Parliament party groups
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1953 establishments in Europe
1976 establishments in Europe