The European People's Party Group is a centre-right 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. The EPP Group comprises politicians of Christian-democratic,conservative and liberal-conservative orientation.
The Free Democratic Party is a liberal political party in Germany.
The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic centrist and liberal conservative political party in Germany. It is the major catch-all party of the centre-right in German politics.
The European People's Party (EPP) is a European political party with Christian-democratic,liberal-conservative,and conservative member parties. A transnational organisation,it is composed of other political parties. Founded by primarily Christian-democratic parties in 1976,it has since broadened its membership to include liberal-conservative parties and parties with other centre-right political perspectives. On 31 May 2022,the party elected as its President Manfred Weber,who was also EPP's Spitzenkandidat in 2019.
Elmar Peter Brok is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1980 until 2019,who is best known for his role as chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs. He is a member of the CDU,which is part of the European People's Party.
The political groups of the European Parliament are the officially recognised political groups consisting of legislators of aligned ideologies in the European Parliament.
Hans-Gert Pöttering is a German lawyer,historian and conservative politician,who served as President of the European Parliament from January 2007 to July 2009 and as Chairman of the CDU-affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation from 2010 to 2017.
Daniel Caspary is a German politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2004. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),part of the European People's Party (EPP). Daniel Caspary is now in the fourth legislature of the European Parliament. Daniel Caspary lives in Weingarten. He is married and has five children.
Werner Langen is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 until 2019. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union,part of the European People's Party.
Peter Liese is a German physician and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 1994. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union,part of the European People's Party.
Herbert Reul is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as State Minister for Internal Affairs in the government of successive Ministers-President Armin Laschet (2017–2021) and Hendrik Wüst. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Jan Zahradil is a Czech politician for the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) who has been Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since the Czech Republic entered the European Union in 2004. Zahradil also served as Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1998 to 2004.
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation is a German political party foundation associated with but independent of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The foundation's headquarters are located in Sankt Augustin near Bonn,as well as in Berlin. Globally,the KAS has 78 offices and runs programs in over 100 countries. Its current chairman is the former President of the German parliament Deutscher Bundestag,Norbert Lammert. It is a member of the Martens Centre,the official foundation and think tank of the European People's Party (EPP). In 2020,it ranked 15th amongst think tanks globally.
Ruprecht Polenz is a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) political party.
David James McAllister is a German politician who has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union,part of the European People's Party. He is the current Vice President of the European People's Party and he is also Vice Chairman of the International Democrat Union. He was appointed Chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee in February 2017.
Alejandro Tarik Agag Longo is a Spanish businessman. He is based in London as the Chairman of Addax Capital LLP.
The Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe was the liberal–centrist political group of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2019. It was made up of MEPs from two European political parties,the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party and the European Democratic Party,which collectively form the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) is a soft Eurosceptic,anti-federalist political group of the European Parliament. The ECR is the parliamentary group of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party European political party (formerly known as the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe or Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists,but also includes MEPs from four other European parties and thirteen MEPs without European party affiliation.
The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) is the political group in the European Parliament of the Party of European Socialists (PES). The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats was officially founded as a Socialist Group on 29 June 1953 which makes it the second oldest political group in the European Parliament after Renew Europe (Renew). It adopted its present-day name on 23 June 2009. Centre-left in orientation,the group mostly comprises social-democratic parties and is affiliated with the Progressive Alliance and Socialist International.
The 2024 European Parliament election is scheduled to be held on 6 to 9 June 2024. This will be the tenth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979,and the first European Parliament election after Brexit.
