EPP Environment Ministers Meeting
26. March 2025
EPP Environment Ministers convened today in Brussels to prepare for the upcoming Environment Council on 27 March. The meeting was co-chaired by Sari MULTALA, Minister for Environment and Climate of Finland, and Wopke HOEKSTRA, EU Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero, and Clean Growth.
The co-chairs welcomed the Ministers, as well as Jessika ROSWALL, Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience, and a Competitive Circular Economy who shared with them the progress made on key files related to bioeconomy, the REACH Directive, and water management strategy.
The Ministers exchanged views on the agenda items for the upcoming Council and discussed the main challenges their respective member states are facing. They focused on the environmental aspects of the EU's Vision for Agriculture and Food, as well as key elements of the Clean Industrial Deal, a vital instrument for promoting sustainable prosperity and competitiveness.
"The Clean Industrial Deal will help provide the best conditions for our industry to thrive. It includes several building blocks, such as supporting industrial decarbonisation, enabling access to sufficient and affordable energy, promoting clean technologies, and incentivising investment", Commissioner Hoekstra mentioned during the meeting.
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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.
