European Democrats
The European People's Party is a Christian democrat-conservative political party at European level; in the European Parliament it also works with the non-party subgroup European Democrats; the name of the grouping is abbreviated EPP-ED. According to its website the EPP is "a family of the political center whose roots are deep in the history of European civilisation. It unites like-minded national parties, in EU Member States and in EU applicant countries and we maintain close contact with decided probable candidate countries."
The party was founded in 1976 and in 1999 after the European Parliament elections became the largest faction with 233 of the 626 seats. After the elections of 2004 it remained the largest party with 278 of the 732 seats.
The EPP-ED is currently made up of the following parties:
List of national parties
See also: Political parties of the world, Members of the European Parliament 2004-2009
