Pan-European Political Parties - Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists, European Democratic Party, European Green Party (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Alliance for Europe of the Nations, Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists, Alliance of European National Movements, Alliance of Independent Democrats in Europe, Community Party, EUDemocrats, European Alliance for Freedom, European Anti-Capitalist Left, European Federalist Party, European Free Alliance, European Green Party, European National Front, European People's Party, European political party, Europe Begins at Sarajevo, Europe United Party, Europe - Democracy - Esperanto, Liberal South East European Network, Movement for a Europe of Liberties and Democracy, Movement for European Reform, National Party of Europe, Newropeans, Nordic Green Left Alliance, Party of European Socialists presidential primaries, 2014, Party of the European Left, Platform for Transparency, Political foundation at European level, Table of political parties in Europe by pancontinental organisation. Excerpt: The European People's Party (EPP) is the major European political party of the centre-right. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives. The EPP has been the largest party in the European Parliament since 1999, the European Council since 2002 and is also by far the largest party in the current European Commission. The President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission are both from the EPP. Many of the Founding fathers of the European Union were also from parties that would later form the EPP. Outside the EU, the party also controls a majority in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The EPP has alternated with its centre-left rival the Party of European Socialists (PES) as the largest European political party. The EPP includes major parties such as the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), French Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), Italian People of Freedom (PdL), Spanish People's Party (PP), and Polish Civic Platform (PO), but has member parties in almost all EU states. It has no member party in the United Kingdom, as the British Conservative Party do not agree with the EPP's federalist policies, and formed the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists. Historically, the party has almost always been in a coalition with the Party of European Socialists, the major centre-left party in the European Parliament. According to its website, the EPP is "the family of the political centre-right, whose roots run deep in the history and civilization of the European continent and has pioneered the European project from its inception." The EPP was founded on 8 July 1976 in Luxembourg on the particular initiative of Jean Seitlinger and then Belgian Prime Minister Leo Tindemans, who also became the first President of the party. Sauli Niinisto and Jyrki Katainen at an EPP summit in HelsinkiIt's