EPP-ED Group
- European Peoples Party Congress in Berlin January 2001 (Photo: EPP)
The Group of the European People's Party, Christian Democrats and European Democrats in the EU Parliament.
The group is the largest in the European Parliament and a major force in the European Union. EPP/ED consists of members from both traditional Christian-democratic parties and British and Danish conservative parties who were previously organised in their own distinct group.
The British conservatives declared in June 2006 that they will form a eurosceptic group after the EU Parliamentarian elections in 2009.
It is descended from the tradition established in the 1950's by Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer and Alcide de Gasperi, of aiming for a federal Europe.
The group is chaired by Joseph Daul from the French UMP party. He took over in 2006 when the former German chairman Hans-Gert Pöttering, CDU, should become the President of the European Parliament
Links
EPP website http://www.epp-ed.eu
