My mission is Europe.
In July 1972 I was born in the district of Landshut. I went to school in rural Wildenberg about an hour’s drive from Munich. It is where I still live today with my wife. My school career led me from the elementary school in Wildenberg to technical high school and later to a physical engineering degree at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich.Many of the valuable lessons in life I learned as a volunteer for the Catholic youth movement, playing in a band touring the region and participating in village life and the CSU youth organisation. My home and my youth have shaped the person I am today, I am proud of where I am from, just as I am a proud European. I chose to become a candidate for the European Parliament in 2004 because I wanted to work among Europeans. After the European elections in 2019, where I had the honour to be lead candidate for the EPP, I was re-elected EPP Group chair, after having been elected a first time in 2014. In the past ten years, I have worked closely with many EPP parties, because I believe profoundly that the EPP should be present locally to help our partners wherever our voters are.
Thanasis Bakolas
Secretary General
Thanasis Bakolas, Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister, Hellenic Republic, Greece, is the EPP Secretary General since the 1st of June 2022.
Paweł Graś
Chief of Cabinet
+32-2-3092873
Beata Turska
Press and Communications Advisor to the President
+32-2-3092860
Sara Pini
Deputy Head of President's Office
+32-2-3092609
Correspondence of the President
Managing social media
Preparing briefings and speeches
Hamda M'Rad Dali
Assistant
+32-2-3092875
Assistant at the President’s office
Maite Zabaleta
Assistant to the Secretary General
+32-2-2854146
Secretary General Office activities
Karine Milheiro
Head of Press Department
+32-2-2854142
Press networking
Relations with press departments of EU representation offices
Press monitoring
Alexandra Henman
Press Adviser
Tel: +32 2 300 59 06
Press relations.
Press activities.
Emilie Aakervik
Press assistant
+32-2-3092852
Assistant at the Press Service
Patrick Voller
Secretary of External Relations
+32-2-3005901
Coordination of EPP external relations
EPP Working Group 3 (Membership)
EPP Foreign Affairs Ministerial Meetings
Coordination of EPP Foreign Affairs Department (EaP, Sec & Def, Transatlantic Relations, MENA, Balkans)
Galina Fomenchenko
Senior Political Adviser
+32-2-2854162
Eastern Partnership Countries, Russia
EPP General Affairs Ministerial Meeting
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Foreign Affairs in the field of energy (Eastern Partnership, Russia and Central Asia)
Future of Europe Group
Eva Patrashkova
Senior Political Adviser
+32473560534
EPP Ministerial Meetings on Agriculture
EPP Ministerial Meetings on Environment
EPP Ministerial Meetings on Energy
EPP Expert Group on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)
EPP ad Hoc Working Group on the Future of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Ajla Hotic
Senior Political Adviser
+32-2-2854160
Middle East and North Africa affairs.
EPP General Affairs Ministerial meetings.
Nathan Shepura
Senior Political Adviser
+ 32 (2) 2 309 28 78
Transatlantic relations
United Kingdom
China
Trade
Claudia Masi
Political Adviser
+32-2-2854148
EPP WG1 European Policy
EPP Expert Group ‘Migration and Integration’
EPP Campaign Managers’ Meetings
Home Affairs ministers meeting
Julia Lisens-Zalutskaja
Political Adviser
+32-2-2854168
EPP Initiative on addressing disinformation
EPP Foreign Affairs Ministerial meetings
EPP WG 3 “EPP Membership”
Nordic and Baltic countries
Eline Chivot
Senior adviser on Digital policy
+32-2-2854167
ECOFIN MM
WG2
Expert Group on Innovation
Pavlína Heymans Špačková
Officer for Ministerial Meetings and Archive Manager. Head of office EPP Women
+32-2-3092867
Support for Agriculture, Environment, Justice Affairs, Home Affairs, and General Ministerial Meetings
Head of Office EPP Women
Archive management
EPP Political Assembly
Martin Harangozo
Assistant to the Deputy-Secretary General
+32-2-2854156
Daphné Lamal
HR and Finance Manager
+32-2-2854151
HR management & implementation
Financial administration
Congress & events
CRM
Office Dep Sec Gen Luc Vandeputte
Kristina Ilievska
HR and Finance Assistant
+32-2-3008010
Charlotte Frizberg
Event Officer
+32-2-3092865
Management of member parties' database
Organisation of EPP Summits, Political Assemblies, Congresses and Presidency
Rok Tus
Multimedia Manager
+32-471-907660
Supervising the audio visual production
Video editing
Graphic design
Moritz Kreis
Video editor
+32(0)2-309 28 63
Video production.
Video making for social media and events.
Kamila Rokošová
Graphic designer
+32-2-2854154
Graphic Design
Visual identity
Guy Volckaert
Manager of Informatics & Internet
+32-2-2854152
IT network and servers of Party headquarters
Intranet and internet management
Strategic developments
Koert Dekker
Trainee at the Communications Department
+32 471998510
Manifesto 2012
The EPP Manifesto, also adopted at the 2012 EPP Congress in Bucharest, outlines the basic principles of the Party summary.
The EPP Manifesto, also adopted at the 2012 EPP Congress in Bucharest, 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”.
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.
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