EPP leaders to meet in Brussels on 14 December ahead of the European Council – List of Participants
13. December 2023
EPP leaders will participate in the EPP Summit in Brussels on 14 December. Preparations for the European Council on 14 and 15 December will be on the agenda.
EPP President Manfred WEBER will host the summit. The following leaders will attend:
President of the European Commission Ursula von der LEYEN and President of the European Parliament Roberta METSOLA.
Heads of State and Government Nikos CHRISTODOULIDES (Cyprus), Luc FRIEDEN (Luxembourg), Ulf KRISTERSSON (Sweden), Kyriakos MITSOTAKIS (Greece), Petteri ORPO (Finland), Andrej PLENKOVIĆ (Croatia), Evika SILIŅA (Latvia), Donald TUSK (Poland) and Taoiseach Leo VARADKAR (Ireland).
Deputy Prime Ministers Mariya GABRIEL (Bulgaria), Antonio TAJANI (Italy) and Vincent VAN PETEGHEM (Belgium).
Opposition and party leaders Bernard GRECH (Malta), Annita DEMETRIOU (Cyprus), Janez JANŠA (Slovenia), Luís MONTENEGRO (Portugal), Alberto NÚÑEZ FEIJÓO (Spain) and Urmas REINSALU (Estonia).
Members of the EPP Presidency Esther DE LANGE, Esteban GONZÁLEZ PONS, Johannes HAHN, Andrzej HALICKI, Siegfried MUREŞAN, Dubravka ŠUICA, EPP Treasurer Paulo RANGEL and EPP Secretary General Thanasis BAKOLAS.
Chairman of the EPP Group in the CoR Olgierd GEBLEWICZ.
Note to press: Due to the early starting time of the European Council, there will exceptionally be no press registration or doorstep opportunities at this EPP Summit.
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For more information contact:
Alexandra Henman
Deputy Spokesperson
+32 471 90 76 84
alh@epp.eu
Angelos Athanasopoulos
National and Regional Press Director
+32 471 90 76 35aa@epp.eu
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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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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.
