European People's Party

The European People's Party (EPP) is a European political party with Christian democratic, liberal-conservative, and conservative member 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.

The EPP has been the largest party in the European Parliament since 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 that later formed the EPP.