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Name | European People's Party Group |
English abbr. | EPP Group (22 June 2009 – present) |
French abbr. | PPE (22 June 2009 – present) |
Formal name | Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) (22 June 2009 – present) Older:
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To | present |
Chaired by | Manfred Weber[15] |
MEP(s) | 188 / 720 |
Website | www |
The European People's Party Group (EPP Group) is a political group of the European Parliament consisting of deputies (MEPs) from the member parties of the European People's Party (EPP). Sometimes it also includes independent MEPs and/or deputies from unaffiliated national parties.[16][17][18] The EPP Group comprises politicians of Christian democratic, conservative and liberal-conservative orientation.[19][20][21]
The European People's Party was officially founded as a European political party in 1976. However, the European People's Party Group in the European Parliament has existed in one form or another since June 1953, from the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community, making it one of the oldest European-level political groups. It has been the largest political group in the European Parliament since 1999.
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).