EPP leaders to meet in Brussels on 18 December ahead of European Council – list of participants
17. December 2025
- President of the European Commission Ursula von der LEYEN and President of the European Parliament Roberta METSOLA.
- Heads of state/government Nikos CHRISTODOULIDES (Cyprus), Luc FRIEDEN (Luxembourg), Ulf KRISTERSSON (Sweden), Friedrich MERZ (Germany) Kyriakos MITSOTAKIS (Greece), Luís MONTENEGRO (Portugal), Petteri ORPO (Finland), Andrej PLENKOVIĆ (Croatia), Evika SILIŅA (Latvia), Christian STOCKER (Austria), Donald TUSK (Poland) and Rosen ZHELYAZKOV (Bulgaria).
- Deputy Prime Ministers Antonio TAJANI (Italy) and Vincent VAN PETEGHEM (Belgium).
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Opposition leaders Alex BORG (Malta), Janez JANŠA (Slovenia), and Mona JUUL (Denmark).
- Members of the EPP Presidency Magnus BRUNNER (Austria), Andrzej HALICKI (Poland), Kostis HATZIDAKIS (Greece), Mairead McGUINNESS (Ireland), Siegfried MUREŞAN (Romania), Paulo RANGEL (Portugal), and Dubravka ŠUICA (Croatia).
- President of the EPP Group in the CoR Sari RAUTIO.
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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.
