Christian democracy is a political ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics.
A gathering of supporters of Christian Democratic Union in Dessau, 1990
The European People's Party (EPP) is a European political party with Christian-democratic, liberal-conservative, and conservative member parties. A transnational organisation, it is composed of other political parties. Founded by primarily Christian-democratic parties in 1976, it has since broadened its membership to include liberal-conservative parties and parties with other centre-right political perspectives. On 31 May 2022, the party elected as its President Manfred Weber, who was also EPP's Spitzenkandidat in 2019.
President Manfred Weber, 2022 Rotterdam EPP Congress
From left to right: Tindemans, Bukman and Santer, former presidents of the EPP
Bonn EPP Congress in 2009
Leo Varadkar, Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker at an EPP summit in June 2018