European People's Party: composition, structure, positions

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:46

Pan-European centre-right political party founded in 1976. The name - European People's Party - includes nationalist, Christian-democratic, conservative and many other parties oriented in the political spectrum as the center-right parties of most European countries.

Composition

This is the largest party in Europe, which is represented in this regard 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 dictated by the very history of European civilization, creating a kind of political center of ideologically similar participants.

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, along with the President of the European Commission, and the President of the EuropeanParliament together with the largest faction of 265 members. Since 2013, the European People's Party has elected Joseph Dol, an MEP, as president. The structure of the party has 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).

Positions

In April 2009, the European People's Party presented at the party congress a document that is an election manifesto for the election campaign, including the following requirements:

• More jobs, reforms and investment in education, equal chances for all, continuous learning and work.
• No to protectionism. Coordination of financial and monetary policy.
• Transparency of the financial market and control over it.
• Europe - the space of environmentally friendly technology.
• Increase energy balance by 20%.
• Working parents - friendly working conditions. Better housing and childcare, tax-friendly policies and parental leave incentives.
• Attracting qualified workers from other countries and around the world, the European economy - more competitiveness, dynamics and knowledge-based.

Structure

Joseph Dol became party leader in Bucharest, where the European People's Party held a congress, succeeding the deceased Wilfried Martens. Vice Presidents alsorepresentatives of different countries and parties were elected: Michel Barnier (France), Luminda Creighton (Ireland), Antonio Tajani (Italy), Peter Hintze (Germany), Corien Wortmann-Hall (Netherlands), Johannes Hahn (Austria), Jacek Sariush-Wolsky (Poland), Mario David (Portugal), Anka Boyagiu (Romania), Tobias Bilstrom (Sweden). In addition to the above 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 from Germany was elected treasurer. The presidium includes honorary party members Leo Tindemans, Sauli Niinistö and Antonio Lopez White. This is how this political party is structured.

The European People's Party is directly linked to European funds specifically set up 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. By 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 Council of Ministers of the party and are held at the headquarters.

Also, representatives from the EPP are periodically convened for short-term meetings with members of the European Commission. Election campaigns of all EPP member partiesnecessarily coordinate from the center of the party. The European People's Party fully adopted and put into effect the principles of democratic centralism. From the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, its structure is almost the same, even the Council of Ministers is together with the chairman.

Moldova

Iurie Leanca, the former prime minister of Moldova, launched the political project "European People's Party of Moldova", presenting the team that joined him. The new party will be distinguished by its methods of activity on the political stage of the country, and it will become European not only in connection with the name.

The initiative group registered the European People's Party of Moldova, which included Oazu Nantoi, Eugen Carpov, Octavian Ticu, Victor Lutenko, Eugen Sturza, Victor Chirila, Valeriu Chiveri, Eremei Prisyajniuc, Ruslan Codreanu, Iulian Groza, Viorel Roscovan, Veronica Cretu and a dozen more people from different political strata of modern Moldovan society.

Reasons for creation

The Public Policy Institute, represented by its director Oazu Nantoi, will continue to support this party, since Moldova's European prospects under the current government have degraded into a farce, which is why it is impossible to come to terms with those false postulates promoted by the minority coalition.

Iurie Leanca strongly supported this position and stressed that he would continue to defend this name in every possible way, although the party does not yet have a legal right to it. Name registration applicationparties have already submitted to the State Agency to secure it as the intellectual property of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova. Iurie Leanca is confident that the Ministry of Justice will not find legal grounds to ban the registration of the European People's Party of Moldova.