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www.epp-ed.mobi
www.epp-ed.eu
WHAT IS THE EPP-ED GROUP?
Welcome to the website of the EPP-ED Group - the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats in the European Parliament. The EPP-ED Group has been the largest political group in the now 785-strong European Parliament since July 1999.
289 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) sit in the EPP-ED Group, representing some 37 per cent of the total. The Group unites Christian Democrat, Conservative and other mainstream centre and centre-right political forces from across the 27-member European Union. The EPP-ED Group is the only one of the seven political groups in the Parliament to contain MEPs from all 27 Member States.
The Chairman of the EPP-ED Group is Joseph Daul MEP. He chairs its governing body - a Presidency of ten Vice-Chairmen, including a Treasurer - and speaks for the Group in keynote debates in the European Parliament. He is supported by coordinators on each of the Parliament's 20 committees and by heads of the national delegations represented in the Group. The operational needs of the Group are serviced by a Group secretariat, providing policy and organisational support. The Group runs its own think-tank - the European Ideas Network - which brings together opinion-formers from the worlds of politics, business, academia and civic society across Europe, to discuss the major policy issues facing the European Union.
Originally founded in June 1953 as the Christian Democrat Group in the embryonic Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (comprised of nominated members of national parliaments), the Group has been centrally involved at every stage in the history of the European Union, from its earliest beginnings to date.
Very many of the parties represented in the EPP-ED Group also belong to the European People's Party, the first-ever transnational political party to be formed at European level. Others form the European Democrats and sit as allied Members of the Group. All work together to resist the political priorities of the left in Europe and to advance the goal of a more competitive and democratic Europe, closer to its citizens.
As the largest political group in a Parliament where non-socialist parties now enjoy a clear majority, the EPP-ED Group is in a stronger position than any other to set that body's political agenda and to win its most critical votes. This strength is reflected in the fact that, since 1999, the EPP-ED Group has been on the winning side of more votes than any other group in the European Parliament's monthly plenary sessions.
Strength of numbers also ensures that EPP-ED Group Members hold a range of key positions within the Parliament - including the chairmanships of nine of the EP's 22 committees or subcommittees, seven of its 14 Vice-Presidencies, and three of its five Quaestorships. Within the parliamentary committees, EPP-ED Group Members are best placed to secure the right to author the EP's position on key pieces of draft legislation and other major reports: the Group gets more of these rapporteurships on more important subjects, than any other group.
In seeking to maximise its influence, the EPP-ED Group has been able to draw on the fact that the European Parliament has become an increasingly powerful political institution within the European Union system.
Already given a right of co-decision with the EU Council of Ministers in many legislative fields by the 1993 Maastricht Treaty, the Parliament has seen the scope of joint law-making further widened by the Amsterdam (1999) and Nice (2003) Treaties. Today, it is an equal partner in the legislative process in over two-thirds of EU policy areas. In addition, it has the final say over the composition of non-agricultural spending and the appointment and dismissal of the European Commission.
This website charts the work of the EPP-ED Group and its Members in shaping the political priorities and choices both of the European Parliament and of the EU institutions as a whole. It is designed as a tool to enable citizens to see at first hand the daily life and work of our Group. We hope that you find the website useful and interesting. Your comments on how we might improve it are always appreciated.
POLITICAL POSITION
The Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats in the European Parliament (EPP-ED Group) is a major political force in the European Union; it is the direct heir of the tradition established in the 1950s by Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer and Alcide de Gasperi.
The EPP-ED Group has worked consistently and successfully to consolidate the European Union on the bases of the primacy of law and respect for fundamental rights, on the application of the principle of subsidiarity and an efficient sharing out of power, and on independent democratic institutions, in order to ensure that future progress serves the common interest of all Europeans.
As members of the EPP-ED Group, we believe in a Europe of values, united, open, more humane and embracing diversity.
We want a Europe which creates opportunity and wealth within a single market, competitive at world level, and which at the same time promotes the wellbeing of everybody, not only in Europe, but also in the rest of the world, in accordance with the principle of sustainable development enshrined in the EU Treaty as one of the European Community's aims.
We wish to see the Union develop a consistent and effective common foreign and security policy and to carry out the institutional reforms necessary to make enlargement a success.
The EPP-ED Group is the political centre in Europe. Moderation and dialogue are the tools our Group deploys. Using them, all our work as members of the EPP-ED Group reflects our unstinting commitment to building a Europe of opportunity, a better Europe for all.
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www.epp-ed.eu
WHAT IS THE EPP-ED GROUP?
Welcome to the website of the EPP-ED Group - the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats in the European Parliament. The EPP-ED Group has been the largest political group in the now 785-strong European Parliament since July 1999.
289 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) sit in the EPP-ED Group, representing some 37 per cent of the total. The Group unites Christian Democrat, Conservative and other mainstream centre and centre-right political forces from across the 27-member European Union. The EPP-ED Group is the only one of the seven political groups in the Parliament to contain MEPs from all 27 Member States.
The Chairman of the EPP-ED Group is Joseph Daul MEP. He chairs its governing body - a Presidency of ten Vice-Chairmen, including a Treasurer - and speaks for the Group in keynote debates in the European Parliament. He is supported by coordinators on each of the Parliament's 20 committees and by heads of the national delegations represented in the Group. The operational needs of the Group are serviced by a Group secretariat, providing policy and organisational support. The Group runs its own think-tank - the European Ideas Network - which brings together opinion-formers from the worlds of politics, business, academia and civic society across Europe, to discuss the major policy issues facing the European Union.
Originally founded in June 1953 as the Christian Democrat Group in the embryonic Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (comprised of nominated members of national parliaments), the Group has been centrally involved at every stage in the history of the European Union, from its earliest beginnings to date.
Very many of the parties represented in the EPP-ED Group also belong to the European People's Party, the first-ever transnational political party to be formed at European level. Others form the European Democrats and sit as allied Members of the Group. All work together to resist the political priorities of the left in Europe and to advance the goal of a more competitive and democratic Europe, closer to its citizens.
As the largest political group in a Parliament where non-socialist parties now enjoy a clear majority, the EPP-ED Group is in a stronger position than any other to set that body's political agenda and to win its most critical votes. This strength is reflected in the fact that, since 1999, the EPP-ED Group has been on the winning side of more votes than any other group in the European Parliament's monthly plenary sessions.
Strength of numbers also ensures that EPP-ED Group Members hold a range of key positions within the Parliament - including the chairmanships of nine of the EP's 22 committees or subcommittees, seven of its 14 Vice-Presidencies, and three of its five Quaestorships. Within the parliamentary committees, EPP-ED Group Members are best placed to secure the right to author the EP's position on key pieces of draft legislation and other major reports: the Group gets more of these rapporteurships on more important subjects, than any other group.
In seeking to maximise its influence, the EPP-ED Group has been able to draw on the fact that the European Parliament has become an increasingly powerful political institution within the European Union system.
Already given a right of co-decision with the EU Council of Ministers in many legislative fields by the 1993 Maastricht Treaty, the Parliament has seen the scope of joint law-making further widened by the Amsterdam (1999) and Nice (2003) Treaties. Today, it is an equal partner in the legislative process in over two-thirds of EU policy areas. In addition, it has the final say over the composition of non-agricultural spending and the appointment and dismissal of the European Commission.
This website charts the work of the EPP-ED Group and its Members in shaping the political priorities and choices both of the European Parliament and of the EU institutions as a whole. It is designed as a tool to enable citizens to see at first hand the daily life and work of our Group. We hope that you find the website useful and interesting. Your comments on how we might improve it are always appreciated.
POLITICAL POSITION
The Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats in the European Parliament (EPP-ED Group) is a major political force in the European Union; it is the direct heir of the tradition established in the 1950s by Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer and Alcide de Gasperi.
The EPP-ED Group has worked consistently and successfully to consolidate the European Union on the bases of the primacy of law and respect for fundamental rights, on the application of the principle of subsidiarity and an efficient sharing out of power, and on independent democratic institutions, in order to ensure that future progress serves the common interest of all Europeans.
As members of the EPP-ED Group, we believe in a Europe of values, united, open, more humane and embracing diversity.
We want a Europe which creates opportunity and wealth within a single market, competitive at world level, and which at the same time promotes the wellbeing of everybody, not only in Europe, but also in the rest of the world, in accordance with the principle of sustainable development enshrined in the EU Treaty as one of the European Community's aims.
We wish to see the Union develop a consistent and effective common foreign and security policy and to carry out the institutional reforms necessary to make enlargement a success.
The EPP-ED Group is the political centre in Europe. Moderation and dialogue are the tools our Group deploys. Using them, all our work as members of the EPP-ED Group reflects our unstinting commitment to building a Europe of opportunity, a better Europe for all.
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They need to change the letter-type on the .mobi site though...really small and squigly letters and hard to read.
