Abstract
Soon after its foundation, the European People’s Party politically outweighed the European Union of Christian Democrats, from which it had sprung and with which it remained institutionally bound. It was natural, then, that the EUCD member parties which also belonged to the EPP concentrated more and more of their work in the framework of the EPP. Among the parties which could not become members of the EPP, because their countries were not members of the European Community, a number and most importantly the Austrian People’s Party, found another field of activity in the so-called European Democratic Union (EDU). It suited their aspirations better, now that their most important partners in the EUCD were dancing at another wedding, a wedding to which they had not been invited.1
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On the problem of the coexistence of the EDU and EUCD, and the connected problem of joint membership of some parties, see Thomas Jansen, ‘Christlich-demokratisch und/oder konservativ?’, in Sonde. Neue Christlich-Demokratische Politik, no. 1/1990, pp. 42–9.
Thomas Jansen, the author of this book: see A Personal Postcript.
From Spain: Partido Democrata Popular (PDP), Unio Democratica de Cataluna (UDC), Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV); from Portugal: Centro Democratico Social (CDS).
Christdemokratische Volkspartei of Switzerland (CVP/PDC), The Austrian Volkspartei (ÖVP), The Christian Democratic Alliance Party of Sweden (KDS), The Christian People’s Party of Norway (KrF), The Christian-Democratic Party of San Marino (PDCSM), The Maltese National Party, and The Democratic Rally of Cyprus (DR).
Decision by the XXII EUCD Congress in Madrid (1985): EUCD general secretariat archive.
Decision of the JECD for the VI Congress of the EPP in The Hague, 10–12 April 1986: EPP general secretariat archive.
Mandate of the Statutory Commission, decision of the EUCD and EPP political bureaux on 7 June 1988: EPP general secretariat archive.
EPP Statute of 8 July 1976, reproduced in: Programme und Statute, vol. 1 of the EPP series ‘Dokumentation’, ed. by the general secretariat, Brussels 1984.
See note 7.
In this context see chapter 16.
‘Struktur und Arbeitweise der EVP-Gremien’, explanation for the Political Bureau: EPP general secretariat archive.
Ibid.
Decision of the EPP Political Bureau, Strasbourg, 26.6.1984: EPP general secretariat archive.
EPP general secretariat archive.
With effect from 7 March 1991, printed in: Handbuch der Europäischen Volkspartei (Christlich-demokratische Fraktion) des Europäischen Parlaments, 4 ed. 1993, p. 355 et seq.
The financial rules were agreed by the EPP Executive on 9 September 1993: EPP general secretariat archive.
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Jansen, T. (1998). Attempts to Merge the EUCD with the EPP, and the Revision of the Statutes, 1985–1990. In: The European People’s Party. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333995297_10
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