The pan-European center-right political party was founded in 1976. The name - European People's Party - includes nationalist, Christian-democratic, conservative and many others oriented in the political spectrum as center-right parties of most European countries.
Structure
This is the largest party in Europe, which is represented in this connection in absolutely all political institutions of the EU and the Council of Europe. It consists of 73 collective members and national parties of 39 states. The European People’s Party unites all its members, as the very history of European civilization dictates, creating a political center for participants close in ideology.
It consists of 16 heads of government of countries united by the European Union, and six leaders of countries outside this union. In addition, 13 members joined this party together with the President of the European Commission, and the President of the European Parliament joined them, together with the largest fraction of 265 members. Since 2013, the European People's Party has elected Joseph Dol, the deputy of the European Parliament, as president. In the party structure there is a youth branch represented by YEPP (Youth of the European People's Party) and EDS (groups of student parties that were associated with the EPP).
Line items
In April 2009, the European People’s Party presented at the party congress a document that is the election manifesto of the election campaign, including such requirements:
- More jobs, reforms and investments in education, equal chances for all, lifelong learning and work.
- No, to protectionism. Coordination of financial and monetary policy.
- Transparency of the financial market and control over it.
- Europe is a space of environmentally friendly technology.
- Increase energy balance by 20%.
- Working parents have friendly working conditions. Better living and childcare conditions, friendly tax policy and promotion of parental leave.
- Attracting skilled workers from other countries and the whole world, to the European economy - greater competitiveness, dynamics and knowledge-based.
Structure
Joseph Dole became the party leader in Bucharest, where the European People's Party held a congress, replacing the deceased Wilfried Martens. Representatives of different countries and parties were also elected vice-presidents: Michel Barnier (France), Luminda Creighton (Ireland), Antonio Tajani (Italy), Peter Hintze (Germany), Corienne Wortmann Hall (Netherlands), Johannes Hahn (Austria), Jacek Sariush-Volsky (Poland), Mario David (Portugal), Anka Boyagiu (Romania), Tobias Bilström (Sweden). In addition to the above-mentioned vice presidents, they are automatically Jose Manuel Barroso as president of the European Commission and Herman Van Rompuy as president of the European Union. Ingo Friedrich of Germany was elected Treasurer. Honorary party members Leo Tyndemans, Sauli Niinistö and Antonio Lopez White are on the podium. In this way, this political party is structured.
The European People’s Party is directly linked to European foundations specifically created to finance initiatives. For example, the official Center for European Studies was founded, a kind of think tank, which, in turn, includes many national foundations and centers.
Activities
Meetings are held at different levels to discuss common positions. At a special invitation, presidents and heads of government gather and talk with opposition leaders, who, of course, are also present in such a massive organization as the European People's Party (EPP). Meetings are organized before the meeting of the party’s council of ministers and are held at headquarters.
Also authorized from EPP with members of the European Commission are periodically convened for short-term meetings. The election campaigns of all EPP member parties are necessarily coordinated from the center of the party. The European People’s Party fully adopted and enacted the principles of democratic centralism. Its structure does not differ almost from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, even the Council of Ministers is coupled with the chairman.
Moldova
Iurie Leanca, the former Prime Minister of Moldova, launched the political project “European People's Party of Moldova”, introducing the team that joined him. The new party will be distinguished by methods of activity on the political scene of the country, and it will become European, not only in connection with the name.
The European People's Party of Moldova has registered an initiative group, which includes Oazu Nantoy, Eugen Karpov, Octavian Tsyku, Victor Lutenko, Eugen Sturza, Victor Kirile, Valeriu Kiver, Eremei Prisyazhnyuk, Ruslan Codriana, Julian Groza, Viorel roscocanu and Viorel roscocanu a person from different political backgrounds of modern Moldavian society.
