European People's Party
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The European People's Party is a European political party with Christian democratic, liberal-conservative, and conservative member parties. Founded by primarily Christian-democratic parties in 1976, i
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
Ursula von der Leyen
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Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician and physician who has served as President of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019,
European People's Party
…1999 and in the European Council since 2002. It is also the largest party in the current European Commission. The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola are from the EPP. Many of the founding fathers of the European Union were also from parties…
Official portrait, 2024
Official portrait, 2020
Portrait of Mrs. Robert Gilmor Jr. — Ursula von der Leyen's great-grandmother of the influential South Carolinian planter class family Ladson — painting by Thomas Sully, c. 1823. Von der Leyen lived in London in the late 1970s under the alias Rose Ladson
2005 campaign poster featuring von der Leyen