EPP General Affairs Ministerial Meeting
27. May 2025
EPP General Affairs Ministers, co-chaired by Jessica ROSENCRANTZ, Minister for EU Affairs of Sweden and Inês DOMINGOS, Secretary of State for European Affairs of Portugal, met this morning in Brussels to prepare the General Affairs Council (GAC) agenda.
The Ministers warmly welcomed for the first time Claudia PLAKOLM, Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Family from Austria and Gunther KRICHBAUM, Minister of State for Europe from Germany.
The Ministers discussed the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) as part of the European Commission’s so-called “Omnibus I” simplification package to enhance the competitiveness of EU’s economy, and also engaged in the preparation of the agenda of the upcoming European Council on 26-27 June.
Finally, they deliberated on rule of law issues, in the context of the “Annual Rule of Law Dialogue”, and on the Article 7 procedure concerning Hungary, initiated by the European Parliament.
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Manifesto 2024
The EPP Manifesto outlines the basic principles of the Party summary.
The EPP Manifesto outlines the basic principles of the Party summarising who we are, what our values are, what challenges are we facing and what vision we have for the future. The Manifesto was developed in parallel to the EPP Platform document within the EPP Working Group 1 for “European Policy”.
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Platform
The EPP Platform is the core programme of our party outlining our main values, explaining the challenges our society is facing and presenting our vision for the future of European Union.
The EPP Platform is the core programme of our party outlining our main values, explaining the challenges our society is facing and presenting our vision for the future of European Union.
The Party Platform was developed in EPP Working Group 1 for “European Policy” chaired by EPP President Wilfried MARTENS ?and EPP Vice President Peter HINTZE. The Working Group consists of delegates of EPP member parties who prepared and worked?on this document for more than two years and received input?from the drafting committee as well as senior and young experts. The document was adopted at the 2012 EPP Congress in Bucharest, thus replacing the Basic Programme of Athens from 1992.
