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Article: EUROPEAN PEOPLE'S PARTY: EPP SEEKS TO SWELL ITS RANKS WITHOUT FOREGOING FEDERALIST AMBITIONS.(European Union's European Parliament party European People's Party-European Democrats)(Brief Article)
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- European Report
- Article date:
- January 17, 2001
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With 232 elected representatives, the EPP is the largest political group in the European Parliament. At the outset of the current legislature it modified its name to become the European People's Party - European Democrats (EPP-ED). The integration of the EDU into the Party's structures is a response to an organisational imperative but should also be seen in the light of the new Article 191 on the Statutes of European political parties introduced in the Nice Treaty. Founded in 1976 by eight Christian-Democratic parties, the EPP, Chaired by the former Belgian Prime Minister, the CVP's Wilfried Martens, now comprises 42 federated parties, including 22 from the candidate ...
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