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European People's Party
|European People's Party
|Joseph Daul (FR)
|8 July 1976
|Rue du Commerce / Handelsstraat 10, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
|Youth wing
|Youth of the European People's Party
|Christian democracy[1]
Liberal conservatism
European federalism[2]
|Political position
|International affiliation
|Centrist Democrat International,
International Democrat Union
|European Parliament group
|European People's Party
|Blue and Gold
|Political foundation
|Centre for European Studies
|Politics of the European Union
Political parties
The European People's Party (EPP) is a European political party founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, though later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right political perspectives.[3][4][5][6]
The EPP has been the largest party in the European Parliament since 1999, the European Council since 2002 and is also by far the largest party in the current European Commission. The President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission are both from the EPP. Many of the Founding fathers of the European Union were also from parties that would later form the EPP. Outside the EU, the party also controls a majority in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The EPP has alternated with its centre-left rival the Party of European Socialists (PES) as the largest European political party.
The EPP includes major parties such as the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), French Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), Spanish People's Party (PP), Polish Civic Platform (PO) and has member parties in almost all EU states. It has no member party in the United Kingdom, as the British Conservative Party does not agree with the EPP's federalist policies, and instead formed the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists in 2009.
- 1 History
- 2 Platform and manifesto
- 3 Structure
- 4 Activities within the party
- 5 Activites within European institutions
- 6 Activities beyond the European Union
- 7 Centre for European Studies
- 8 EPP associations
- 9 Membership
- 10 Full member parties
- 11 Associate members
- 12 Observer members
- 13 Notes
- 14 References
- 15 Bibliography
- 16 External links
According to its website, the EPP is "the family of the political centre-right, whose roots run deep in the history and civilization of the European continent and has pioneered the European project from its inception."[7]
The EPP was founded on 8 July 1976 in Luxembourg on the particular initiative of Jean Seitlinger, the then Belgian Prime Minister Leo Tindemans, who also became the first President of the party, and the later Belgian Prime Minister and EPP President Wilfried Martens.
It's to be noted though, that many political centre-right associations were already on the move since long ago and could be considered as EPP's predecessors. For example the Nouvelles Equipes Internationales in 1946[8] or 1948,[9] via the European Union of Christian Democrats founded in 1965,[8] although it has been argued that it ultimately descends from the Secretariat International des partis démocratiques d'inspiration chrétienne founded in 1925.[9]
An important movement came in the late 1990s, when Finnish politician Sauli Niinistö, negotiated the merger of the European Democrat Union (EDU), of which he was President, into the EPP. In October 2002, the EDU ceased its activities after being formally absorbed by the EPP at a special event in Estoril, Portugal. In recognition of his efforts, Niinistö was elected Honorary President of the EPP in the same year.
During these 37 years, the EPP has had five Presidents:
- Leo Tindemans (1976–1985)
- Piet Bukman (1985–1987)
- Jacques Santer (1987–1990)
- Wilfried Martens (1990–2013)
- Joseph Daul (2013–present)
At the March 2014, EPP Congress in Dublin, the EPP was visited by Julia Tymoshenko and Vitali Klitschko, who were then leaders of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.[10]
Platform and manifesto[edit]
Political manifesto and platform[edit]
During its Congress of Bucharest in 2012, the European People's Party updated its political platform after 20 years (EPP Congress of Athens, 1992) and it approved a political manifesto in which it summarises its main values and policies.[11]
Among them, the manifesto highlights:
- Freedom as a central human right and coupled with responsibility
- Respect for traditions and associations
- Solidarity to help those in need, who in turn should also make an effort to improve their situation
- Ensuring solid public finances
- Preserving a healthy environment
- Subsidiarity
- Pluralist democracy and Social Market Economy
The manifesto also describes the EPP's priorities for the EU including:
- A European Political Union
- Direct election for the President of the European Commission
- Completion of the European single market
- Promote family, improve education and health
- Strengthening of the common immigration and asylum policy and integrating immigrants
- Continue the EU enlargement, enhanced the European Neighbourhood Policy and offer special relationship frameworks to countries that can't or don't want to join the EU
- Defining a true common EU energy policy
- Strengthening European political parties
Electoral manifesto[edit]
As a central part of its 2009 campaign for the European elections, the EPP approved at the April Congress in Warsaw its 'Election Manifesto'. The EPP 2009 election manifesto calls for:
- Creation of new jobs. Continuing reforms and investment in education, lifelong learning and employment in order to create opportunities for everyone.[12]
- Protectionism must be averted. Fiscal and monetary policies must be coordinated.[12]
- Increasing transparency and surveillance on financial markets.[12]
- Making Europe the market leader in green technology.[12]
- Increasing the share of renewable energy to at least 20% of the energy mix by 2020.[12]
- Family-friendly flexibility for working parents. Better childcare and housing must be provided, family-friendly fiscal policies introduced, and parental leave should be encouraged.[12]
- Europe should find a strategy to attract skilled workers from the rest of the world to make Europe's economy more competitive, more dynamic and more knowledge driven.[12]
The EPP operates as an international non-profit association under Belgian law according to its by-laws, the Statutes of the European People's Party (Statuts du Parti Populaire Européen), originally adopted 29 April 1976.[13]
The Presidency is the executive body of the party. It decides on the general political guidelines of the Party and presides over the Political Assembly. The Presidency is composed of the president, ten vice-presidents, the honorary presidents, the secretary-general and the treasurer. Besides, the chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, the Presidents of the Commission, the Parliament, the Council and the High Representative (as long as they belong to a member party) are all ex officio vice-presidents.
Since the EPP Congress of 2012 in Bucharest and after the 12 November 2013 election of Joseph Daul by the EPP Political Assembly, the presidency is formed by:
- Joseph Daul – President
- Antonio Lopez-Isturiz White – Secretary-General
- Peter Hintze (de) – Vice-President
- Michel Barnier - Vice-President
- Antonio Tajani – Vice-President
- Johannes Hahn – Vice-President
- Mário David – Vice-President
- Jacek Saryusz-Wolski – Vice-President
- Corien Wortmann-Kool – Vice-President
- Lucinda Creighton – Vice-President
- Tobias Billström – Vice-President
- Anca Boagiu – Vice-President
- Ingo Friedrich – Treasurer
- José Manuel Barroso – Ex officio Vice-President
- Herman Van Rompuy – Ex officio Vice-President
- Leo Tindemans – Honorary President
- Sauli Niinistö - Honorary President
Political Assembly[edit]
The Political Assembly defines the political positions of the party between each Congress, deciding on membership applications, political guidelines and budget. The Political Assembly is composed of designated delegates from EPP member and associated member parties, member associations and groups.
The Political Assembly meets at least three times a year.
The Congress is the highest decision-making body of the party. It is composed of delegates from member parties, EPP associations, EPP Group MEPs of the member parties, the EPP Presidency, national heads of party and government, and European Commissioners who belong to a member party, with the number of delegates weighted according to the EPP's share of MEPs and individual delegates being elected by member parties according to member parties' rules.[14]
By rule of its statutes, it must meet once every three years, but it also meets normally during the years of elections for the European Parliament (every five years) and extraordinary congresses can be (and have been) summoned. This means that, in fact, the Congress meets more frequently than the three years. It elects the EPP Presidency (every three years), decides on the main policy documents and electoral programmes and provides a platform for the EPP Heads of Government and party leaders.
The last Congress was held on 6–7 March 2014 in Dublin.[15] The previous Congress of the EPP was the Bucharest Congress in October 2012.
Activities within the party[edit]
Regularly, a few hours prior to the meeting of the European Council, EPP leaders meet for the EPP Summit in order to form a common position towards the council.
Invitations are sent by the EPP President and attendants include, besides the party presidency, all Presidents and Prime Ministers that are members of the European Council and belong to the EPP; the presidents of the European Parliament, European Commission and European Council as well as the High Representative for Foreign Affairs given that they belong to the EPP; deputy Prime Ministers or other ministers in those cases where the PM of the respective country does not belong to an EPP member party (i.e. coalition governments); and in the case that no EPP member party is part of the government, the leader of the main EPP opposition party is invited.
Ministerial meetings[edit]
Following the pattern of the EPP Summit, for the past years the party has organised on a regular basis EPP Ministerial meetings prior to the meetings of the Council of the European Union with ministers, deputy ministers, secretaries of State and MEPs related to the subject attending.
Currently, the EPP organises a total of twelve Ministerial meetings which are:
- General affairs
- Foreign Affairs
- Economy and Finance
- Home affairs
- Justice
- Defence
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Industry
- Agriculture
- Energy
- Environment[16]
Other activities[edit]
The EPP also organizes working groups on different issues and on an ad hoc basis, meetings with its affiliated members of the European Commission and it also invites individual Commissioners to the EPP Summit meetings and to EPP Ministerial meetings.
Following the 2007 amendment of the EU Regulation that governs Europarties, the EPP as well as the other Europarties, are responsible for organizing the pan-European campaign for the European elections every five years. According to the Lisbon Treaty, the EPP (like all Europarties) must present, as part of the campaign for the European elections, a candidate for President of the European Commission; the EPP already did this prior to the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, by endorsing for a second term Jose Manuel Barroso in April 2009, and did do so for the 2014 elections at its Dublin Congress on 6–7 March 2014.[15][17]
Activites within European institutions[edit]
The EPP holds the Presidencies of two of the three main EU institutions: the European Commission led by President José Manuel Barroso (PSD) and the European Council led by Herman Van Rompuy (CD&V), who was nominated by EPP as its first permanent President.
Overview of the European institutions[edit]
|Number of seats
|European Union
|European Parliament
214 / 751
|European Union
|Committee of the Regions
125 / 344
|European Union
|European Commission
13 / 28
|European Union
|European Council
(Heads of Government)
12 / 28
European Commission[edit]
The EPP during its 2009 European elections campaign, re-nominated at its April 2009 Congress in Warsaw José Manuel Barroso as its candidate for re-election as Commission President if it won the elections. Because the EPP won, Barroso's nomination was endorsed by the European Council and was elected by an absolute majority in the European Parliament for a second term.
On 27 November 2009, Barroso unveiled the 'Barroso II Commission' which includes a total of 13 (out of 27) EPP Commissioners.
European Parliament[edit]
In the European Parliament the EPP has the largest parliamentary group – the EPP Group – with 275 MEPs chaired from 2009 to 2014 by the President of the EPP, French MEP Joseph Daul. In 2014, the chair was assumed by Manfred Weber.
In every European election, candidates elected on lists of member-parties of the EPP are obliged to join the EPP Group in the European Parliament.
In the current term of the 7th European Parliament (2009-2014), the EPP is the only Europarty that has a fully corresponding parliamentary group.
After presiding over the Parliament with Polish MEP Jerzy Buzek in the first half of the 2009-2014 term, in the second half the EPP Group holds seven of the fourteen vice-presidencies of the European chamber.
European Council[edit]
The EPP has 12 out of the 28 heads of State or Government that attend the EPP summits in preparation for the European Council:
|Member State
|Political party
|Member of the Council since
|Anastasiades, NicosNicos Anastasiades
|28 February 2013
|Katainen, JyrkiJyrki Katainen
|Prime Minister
|22 June 2011
|Merkel, AngelaAngela Merkel
|22 November 2005
|Samaras, AntonisAntonis Samaras
|Prime Minister
|20 June 2012
|Orbán, ViktorViktor Orbán
|29 May 2010
|Kenny, EndaEnda Kenny
|Taoiseach[a 1]
|Fine Gael
|9 March 2011
|Straujuma, LaimdotaLaimdota Straujuma
|Prime Minister
|22 January 2014
|Donald Tusk
|President of the Council of Ministers
|16 November 2007
|Passos Coelho, PedroPedro Passos Coelho
|Prime Minister
|21 June 2011
|Băsescu, TraianTraian Băsescu
|23 May 2007
|Rajoy, MarianoMariano Rajoy
|President of the Government
|21 December 2011
|Reinfeldt, FredrikFredrik Reinfeldt
|Prime Minister
|6 October 2006
The EPP also has other heads of State or Government who do not normally take part in the European Council nor EPP summits since that responsibility belongs to the other leaders of their countries: Rosen Plevneliev (Bulgaria, GERB), János Áder (Hungary, Fidesz), Bronisław Komorowski (Poland, PO), Aníbal Cavaco Silva (Portugal, PSD), Sauli Niinistö (Finland, KOK).
National legislatures[edit]
|Number of seats
|National Council
Lower house
51 / 183
|Federal Council
Upper house
28 / 62
|Chamber of Representatives
Lower house
26 / 150
Upper house
11 / 40
|National Assembly
97 / 240
44 / 151
|House of Representatives
20 / 56
|Czech Republic
|Chamber of Deputies
Lower house
40 / 200
Upper house
6 / 81
|The Folketing
8 / 179
23 / 101
44 / 200
|National Assembly
Lower house
194 / 577
Upper house
132 / 348
311 / 630
125 / 300
133 / 199
Lower house
74 / 166
Upper house
20 / 60
|Chamber of Deputies
Lower house
68 / 630
Upper house
67 / 315
20 / 100
33 / 141
|Chamber of Deputies
23 / 60
|House of Representatives
30 / 69
|House of Representatives
Lower house
13 / 150
Upper house
11 / 75
Lower house
235 / 460
Upper house
65 / 100
|Assembly of the Republic
132 / 230
|Chamber of Deputies
Lower house
52 / 412
Upper house
22 / 176
|National Council
35 / 150
|National Assembly
36 / 90
|Congress of Deputies
Lower house
185 / 350
Upper house
159 / 266
126 / 349
Activities beyond the European Union[edit]
In third countries[edit]
Through its associate and observer parties, EPP has four Heads of State and Government in European non-EU countries and one of the three members of the Bosnian Presidency, which jointly are the Head of State of the country. They are invited to attend EPP summits and meetings:
|Political party
|In power since
|Sargsyan, SerzhSerzh Sargsyan
|9 April 2008
|Bosnia and Herzegovina
|Izetbegović, BakirBakir Izetbegović
|Bosniak Member of the Presidency
|10 November 2010
|Gruevski, NikolaNikola Gruevski
|Prime Minister
|27 August 2006
|Leancă, IurieIurie Leancă
|Prime Minister
|25 April 2013
|Solberg, ErnaErna Solberg
|Prime Minister
|16 October 2013
The party has also other Heads of State and Government but they don't normally attend the meetings since the other leaders of their countries are the ones that attend. They are Prime Minister Vjekoslav Bevanda (Bosnia-Herzegovina, HDZ BiH), President Gjorge Ivanov (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, VMRO-DPMNE), President Bujar Nishani (Albania, PD) and President Abdullah Gul (Turkey, AKP). The same is the case for Doris Leuthard (CVP), member of the Swiss Federal Council and Teodoro Lonfernini (PDCS), one of the two Captain Regents of San Marino.
In the Council of Europe[edit]
The Group of the EPP in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe defends freedom of expression and information, as well as freedom of movement of ideas and religious tolerance. It promotes the principle of subsidiarity and local autonomy, as well as the defence of national, social and other minorities. The EPP/CD Group is led by Spanish Popular Party membre Pedro Agramunt.
The EPP/CD group comprises also members from parties that are not related to the EPP itself, including members of the Patriotic Union (Liechtenstein), the Progressive Citizens' Party (Liechtenstein), the National and Democratic Union (Monaco) or the Serbian Progressive Party.[18]
In the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe[edit]
The "EPP and like-minded Group" in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) parliamentary assembly is the most active political group of that organization. The Group meets on a regular basis and promotes the EPP positions at levels of decision-making process. The members of the EPP Group also participate in election monitoring missions of the OSCE and are committed in promoting democratic values and practices.
The Group is chaired by Walburga Habsburg Douglas (Sweden) and its Vice Presidents are: Consiglio Di Nino (Canada), Vilija Aleknaitė Abramikiene (Lithuania), Laura Allegrini (Italy) and George Tsereteli (Georgia).
This group also includes members of parties not related to the EPP, therefore the "like-minded" part of the name. Among them are members of the Patriotic Union (Liechtenstein), Union for the Principality (Monaco), the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom, the Conservative Party of Canada and the Republican Party of the United States.
In the North Atlantic Treaty Organization[edit]
Following the by-laws of the Party, the EPP is also present in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Parliamentary Assembly (NATO-PA) and forms the "EPP and Associated Members" Group. It is an active political group which is led by German CDU politician Karl Lamers, who is also the current President of the NATO-PA.
This group is also integrated by members of the Conservative Party of Canada and the Republican Party of the United States.
Relations within the United States[edit]
The EPP has close relations with the International Republican Institute (IRI), an organization funded by the American government specially to promote democracy and democratization. EPP and IRI cooperate in the framework of the 'European Partnership Initiative'.[19]
EPP President Wilfried Martens endorsed Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee for president, in the 2008 United States election[20] (McCain is also IRI Chairman).
In 2011, Martens and McCain have made some joint press statements expressing their concerns on the state of democracy in Ukraine and politically motivated trial against former PM Yulia Tymoshenko.[21][22]
Global networks[edit]
The EPP is the European wing of two centre-right global multilateral organisations: the International Democrat Union (IDU) and the Christian Democrat International (CDI).
Centre for European Studies[edit]
Following the 2008 revision of the EU Regulation that governs European political parties allowing the creation of European foundations affiliated to Europarties, the EPP established in the same year its official foundation/think tank, the Centre for European Studies (CES). The CES includes as members all the major national think tanks and foundations affiliated to EPP member parties: Konrad Adenauer Foundation (CDU), Hanns Seidel Foundation (CSU), Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies (PP), Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy (ND), Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation (MOD), the Political Academy of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and others. During the 2009 European elections campaign, the CES launched a successful web-based campaign module 'tellbarroso.eu' to support Jose Manuel Barroso, the EPP candidate, for re-election as Commission President.
The Budapest-based Robert Schuman Institute and the Luxembourg-based Robert Schuman Foundation are also affiliated with the European People's Party.[citation needed]
EPP associations[edit]
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EPP is linked to several specific associations which focus in specific groups and which many times, by their own, organise seminars, forums, publications and other activities. Those associations are:
Small and Medium Entrepreneurs Europe (SME Europe)[edit]
SME Europe, is the official business organization of the European People's Party and serves as a network for pro-business politicians and political organisations. Its main objective is to shape EU policy in a more SME friendly way in close cooperation with the SME Circle of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, DG Enterprise and the pro-business organizations of the national EPP member parties. The importance of the work of the SME Europe can be seen in the fact that SME are considered as the key driver for sustainable jobs, growth and prosperity.
Its top priority is to reform the legal framework for SMEs all over Europe and to promote and support the interests of small and medium-sized enterprises which - due to their willingness to take risks and responsibility - are the engine of the European economy.
SME Europe was founded in May 2012 by the three Members of the European Parliament, Paul Rübig, Nadezhda Neynsky and Bendt Bendtsen. It will be at the centre of the political campaign of the European People's Party for the European Parliament Election in 2014, with its clear focus on strategies to manage and overcome the economic crisis in Europe.
European Democrat Students[edit]
European Democrat Students (EDS) is the official students' organisation of the EPP. Since it was founded in 1961, EDS brings together students and young political leaders from all over Europe to promote a political exchange.
Although being a students' organisation, and therefore taking a special interest in topics like the Bologna Process, the organisation is especially aware of the importance of promoting values like freedom, democracy and human rights.
Led by Eva Majewski, the structure has 40 member organisations, representing nearly 1,600,000 students and young people[23] across the continent and currently, it's represented in 31 countries, including non-EU member states like Belarus and Georgia.
EDS is not a centralised organisation, it is an "organisation of organisations", a networking structure whose general aim is to bundle the power of the various members in order to give young people and students a strong voice.
Every year the organisation hosts Summer and Winter universities and several seminars. It also regularly publishes a magazine called "Bullseye" and campaigns, through various forms, for the interests of young people.
European Senior Union[edit]
Founded in Madrid in 1995 and led by CD&V member Ann Hermans, the European Senior Union (ESU) is the largest political senior citizens' organisation in Europe.
The ESCU is represented in 26 states with 45 organisations and about 500,000 members and it's dedicated to the advancement of rights of European senior citizens and their engagement in society. The aims of the ESCU are the promotion of the role of the elderly in ageing European societies, the fight against the discrimination of the elderly, the European pension systems, seniors and volunteering, intergenerational relationship and participation.
European Union of Christian Democratic Workers[edit]
The European Union of Christian Democratic Workers (EUCDW) is the workers' organisation of the EPP with 24 member organisations from 18 different countries.
As the officially recognized EPP association of workers, the EUCDW is led by Elmar Brok, MEP, and aims: to press for the political unification of a democratic Europe; to promote the development of the EPP on the basis of Christian-social teaching; to represent and defend worker interests in European Policy; to work for the achievement of Christian-social principles and policies in the European workers' movements; to step up co-operation with the workers and their representatives to realise step by step the European Social Model. Therefore, in the last years, the EUCDW has made a lot of effort in influencing employment policy and defending an undivided Europe of social justice.
Women of the European People's Party[edit]
The Women of the European People's Party (EPP Women) is recognised by the EPP as the official association of women from all like-minded political parties of Europe. EPP Women have over 40 member organisations from countries of the European Union and beyond. All member organisations are women's organisations from political parties which are members of the EPP.
EPP Women, led by Doris Pack, is dedicated to the advancement of women's political participation throughout Europe and to the promotion of important women-related issues.
Youth of the European People's Party[edit]
The Youth of the European People's Party (YEPP), led by Konstantinos Kyranakis, is EPP's official youth organisation, self-governed by its own statutes, political program and elected representatives. YEPP's members are national partypolitical youth organisations.
The purpose of all 51 member organisations as well as for YEPP is to provide young people a channel in order to influence the shaping of their societies with democratic means and centre-right, Christian Democratic and conservative ideas. Through its member organisations YEPP brings together between one and two million young people in 38 countries of Europe. This makes YEPP the largest party-political youth organisation in Europe.
Within the EPP there are three kinds of members: full members, associate membres and observers.
Full members are all parties from EU states. They have absolute rights to vote in all the organs and on all the matters; meanwhile associate members have the same voting rights except for matters concerning EU structure or policies. These associate membres are parties from EU-candidate countries and EFTA countries.
On the other hand, observer parties can participate in all the activities of the EPP and attend the Congresses and Political Assemblies, but do not have any voting rights.
Finally, there's a special membership status which are the "supporting members", which is granted by the Presidency to individuals and associations. Although they do not have voting rights, they can be invited by the President to attend meetings of certain organs of the party.
It´s worth noting that commissioners Dacian Ciolos, Kristalina Georgieva and Andris Piebalgs are members of the EPP though they do not belong to any national party in their countries.
Full member parties[edit]
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- Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)
- Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
- Croatian Peasant Party (HSS)
- Democratic Rally (DISY)
- Forza Italia (FI)
- New Centre-Right (NCD)
- Union of the Centre (UDC)
- Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEUR)
- Christian Social People's Party (CSV/PSC)
- Civic Platform (PO)
- Polish People's Party (PSL)
- Social Democratic Party (PSD)
- CDS – People's Party (CDS–PP)
- Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L)
- Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNŢ-CD)
- Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR)
- Christian Democratic Movement (KDH)
- Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party (SDKÚ-DS)
- Most–Híd
- Party of the Hungarian Community (SMK/MKP)
- Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS)
- Slovenian People's Party (SLS)
- New Slovenia (NSi)
- People's Party (PP)
- Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC)
Associate members[edit]
- Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (VMRO–DPMNE)
- United Regions of Serbia (URS)
- Serbian Progressive Party (SNS)
Observer members[edit]
- Republican Party of Armenia (HHK)
- Rule of Law (OEK)
- Heritage Party
- Party of Democratic Action (SDA)
- Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZBiH)
- Party of Democratic Progress (PDP)
- Christian Democrats (KD)
- United National Movement (UNM)
- Christian People's Party (KrF)
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- Kaiser, Wolfram (2004). "Transnational Christian Democracy: From the Nouvelles Equipes Internationales to the European People's Party". In Michael Gehler; Wolfram Kaiser. Christian Democracy in Europe since 1945 (Routledge). pp. 194–208. ISBN 0-7146-5662-3.
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Minco High School junior Blake Tracy was timed, primed and ready to clack away at the Braille writer Friday morning.
She had a goal of winning this year's Braille Challenge on Friday at Oklahoma School for the Blind.
"I'm not going to be surprised this year," Blake said, adding that she took silver, or second place, in her division at last year's challenge.
Blake was among a couple of dozen students from across Oklahoma who entered the Braille Challenge. OSB Superintendent Jim Adams said the Challenge is part of an international competition that focuses on literacy skills for blind and vision-impaired students.
Hailey Baskeyfield of Norman won First Overall in first through fourth grade.
Richelle Zampella of Muskogee won First Overall in fifth through 12th grade.
Blake took first in the Varsity Division.
Before the competition, she explained how she prepared differently for this year's Challenge.
"Last year, I just practiced typing," she said. "This year it was easier to practice. I actually had my grandma set the 25-minute timer on me."
The Challenge tests students on proofreading and reading comprehension. Younger students are tested on spelling. Older students compete in graph and chart reading, plus speed and accuracy. Each test lasts 25 minutes.
Contestants use a Braille writer, a nine-key device that embosses paper with the dotted Braille letters. Instead of a "QWERTY" typewriter set-up, the Braille writer uses six keys to create the letters. Braille letters are made of dotted patterns on a six-space grid.
Hailey, a second-grader, said she prefers to call the device a typewriter rather than a Braille writer.
Jeanne Meyer, who oversaw the varsity competition, said the Challenge helps blind and vision-impaired people become better Braille readers and writers.
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One thing you always notice this time of year, especially in national reports about major weather events, is the expression of some astonishment that it's cold "even in Tennessee."
From New York newsrooms, we look like handy Southerners. Geographically, though, are we so different from our northern brethren?
Look at your desk globe. Latitudes across the northern hemisphere range from zero, at the equator, to 90, at the North Pole. Knoxville's about 36 degrees latitude. Washington's about 38 and a half. Cincinnati's about 39. New York's barely over 40. We're all kind of clustered in the temperate middle. You could say that, more or less, for the contiguous 48 states, give or take South Texas and Minnesota. Maybe we don't get as much snow as New York does, but we get enough to know what it tastes like. We know what kind of snow is good for snowmen, what kind is good for sledding, and we should know how to drive in it better than we do.
Say Tennessee's in a hypothetical place called the South, and I won't argue. But in latitude, Knoxville and Philadelphia are closer than Knoxville and, say, Jacksonville. On a hunch, I looked this up. Knoxville's a little closer to the Great Lakes—Lake Erie, anyway—than to the Gulf Coast. Sure it gets chilly here.
Of course, sometimes the hyperbolic reporting is justified. There was that freakish Monday, Jan. 21, 1985. I was freshly unemployed in a rental duplex in West Knoxville without a car. I don't think I had a television at the time, and maybe I lacked electricity that day, anyway, because I don't remember any access even to the radio news. I did notice that the water in my kitchen sink, under the leaky faucet, froze, and I found that right peculiar. I could tell it was pretty damn cold, but couldn't tell how cold. I went outside once, but not for long, because it hurt to breathe. I learned the next day that it was 24 below zero.
That's not a wind-chill calculation, deployed to exaggerate misery. It was just 24 below, flat. It was another polar vortex. In fact, that very Monday is used as the top illustration in Wikipedia's definition of polar vortex. On his national show the following day, radio commentator Paul Harvey, a connoisseur of oddities, remarked that Knoxville was the coldest spot in the United States.
And thanks to that one day in 1985, Knoxville can claim that we've been colder than New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and even Boston have ever been. Seriously. Look it up.
I've noticed for years that temperatures are often not much different between here and New York. Sometimes New York's hotter. In fact, the all-time highs for both New York and Philadelphia are 106, one degree hotter than Knoxville's record of 105, set in 2012.
Is that weird? Maybe not. Weather is promiscuous about state lines. It doesn't even have any respect for the Mason-Dixon line. Weather is global in its perspective, and always aswirl.
There are times, like last Monday night, when I was laying a fire because it was 2 degrees outside and the power was out, that can strain your lifelong faith that the North and the South are different places, with certain consistent properties.
Concerning the premise that the United States is cleanly bifurcated in any respect, especially when it comes to North and South, I am becoming an infidel.
But we do like to categorize ourselves that way. The idea was lampooned, and maybe re-enforced, in an old Bugs Bunny adventure, when our hero trudges through a desiccated wasteland of dead trees and telephone poles until he crosses the Mason-Dixon line and that suddenly finds himself in a lush, green paradise of flowers and magnolias and columned mansions and riverboats. Guarded, of course, by Yosemite Sam in a Confederate uniform.
The Civil War has much to answer for. Tennessee was rarely considered "the South" until its tardy defection in mid-1861. Before that, when newspapers up North or, for that matter, in Knoxville, referred to "the South," it was nearly always in reference to the Deep South, the cotton states, more or less the Gulf states plus South Carolina and Georgia. Before the Mexican War, Tennessee was part of "the West." After that, I guess, it was up for grabs.
Culture is as promiscuous as the weather. If it's a given that there's a North and a South, we have to admit they sometimes reverse characteristics completely. Consider the strange story of the Republican Party.
Regional foodways are rife with red herrings. Despite the distance from the Gulf, Cajun-style boiled crawfish has become commonplace in Knoxville, as a party hors d'oeuvre and a supermarket purchase, and that might seem significant. But it hasn't been around here nearly as long as, say, New England clam chowder. Or chop suey.
A few years ago, I risked sacrilege by suggesting that grits first appeared on Knoxville menus not as a result of the natural evolution of genuine local traditions, but as a way to appease Northern tourists. Thanks to the national media, they had come to expect it on their quaint Southern vacations.
There's a related phenomenon involving the deeper South. Smithsonian magazine recently published a feature by Hodding Carter about tamales and how they have taken hold of Greenville, Miss. The premise is that it's some kind of crazy freak that a small city in a state that doesn't even share a border with Mexico might somehow learn to specialize in a Mexican dish.
Carter cites historians who have concluded the Mexican dish arrived with migrant Mexican laborers, sometime after 1916. But these sources ignore the fact that tamales were fairly common in several Southern cities, including Knoxville, by the 1890s. Our city directory had an individual category heading for "Tamale Manufacturers" by 1909. Tasty food traditions, like cold fronts, often travel much faster than actual people do.
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Traverse City — Area bakers can register to have their cookies judged in a Christmas Cookie Contest sponsored by Bay Pointe Church. The registration deadline is Wednesday, Dec. 12.
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Funeral services were held on Wednesday, August 17, at Bethel Lutheran Church in Greeenbush, with Pastor Bryce Fellbaum, Pastor Ken Hart and Father Jeyapaul, officiating. Casket bearers included Daryl Bushee, Tom Hoverson, Rick Sovde, Daniel Novacek, Gene Janousek, Allan Gibney and Doug Kilen. Interment was held at the St. Aloysius Cemetery in Leo (rural Greenbush). Interment prayers were led by Father Jeyapaul and Stephanie's sister Andrea sang "Ave Maria" at the graveside.
Michael Jerome Kilen, the son of Arthur and Helen (Bertilrud) Kilen, was born Feb. 27, 1952 in Greenbush. He grew up in Greenbush, was baptized at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, rural Greenbush and was confirmed at Bethel Lutheran Church in Greenbush. He graduated from Greenbush High School, Class of 1970. He married Stephanie Novacek on July 22, 1972 at St. Aloysius Church, Leo.
He farmed in Hereim Township, rural Greenbush for many years. He moved to Grand Forks, N.D. in 2001. He had served as Hereim Township Board Supervisor, board member of the Greenbush Shipping Assn., member of the Karlstad Eagles Club and was a member of the Meadows Condo Board at Grand Forks.
Michael farmed and worked construction throughout his entire life. He loved to hunt, fish and attend auction sales. His greatest joy in life was his two grandchildren who loved to visit in Grand Forks, N.D.. They also enjoyed their frequent travels and camping trips with Grandma and Grandpa. He will be missed by all who knew him.
Survivors include his wife, Stephanie Kilen; three children, Nicholas Kilen of Antioch, Tenn., Angela (Kevin) Peterson of Greenbush and Richard Kilen of Moorhead; two grandchildren; his mother, Helen Kilen of Greenbush; two brothers, Keith (Eileen) and Jerel (Audrey), both of Greenbush; two sisters, Carolynn Kilen and Ann Graham, both of New Hope; and one Godchild, Marissa Graham.
He was preceded in death by his father, Arthur Kilen in December of 1978.


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Monday, June 4
America's Got Talent, 8 p.m., NBC
Lots of dancing last week – I always love that. I loved that "urban Glee" group – I hope they go far.
Hell's Kitchen, 8 p.m., Fox
Season premiere: "The chefs must make their signature dishes." I often find that a chef's signature dish is not always his or her best. But that's just me.
MasterChef, 9 p.m., Fox
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TGM Realty Investors, Inc. has changed its name to Thalhimer Realty Partners, Inc., a change that represents the company's continued strategic efforts to leverage the full service platform of its parent company, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer, while maintaining its mission to provide real estate investment and development services on behalf of its investment partners. Thalhimer Realty Partners, Inc. manages a portfolio of commercial and multifamily assets valued at greater than $250 million.
New Boston Fund and RER Equities, Inc. have leased 46,150 square feet of Class-A office space to Magellan Medicaid Administration at WestMark Two in Glen Allen. Magellan will occupy 23 percent of the five story, 204,622-square-foot building and is slated to move in on Sept. 1. New Boston and RER Equities have leased approximately 130,000 square feet at WestMark Two within the past five months, having previously completed an 83,414-square-foot lease with SunTrust Bank. Approximately 74,000 square feet (two floors) remain available.
The University of Richmond's Heilman Dining Center recently won the Loyal E. Horton Bronze Award for Residential Dining Special Event from the National Association of College and University Food Services. The winning event was a Titanic Memorial Dinner March 1, which honored the centennial anniversary of the fateful voyage. The Dining Center offered authentic dinner selections from Titanic menus and exhibited reproductions of the ship and other memorabilia, newspaper clippings from the period and a documentary of the disaster. In 2009, the Dining Center won the gold award for residential dining among medium-sized schools and the grand prize in the same category for all colleges and universities.
Cushman & Wakefield Thalhimer recently handled the following lease negotiations: Showbest Fixture Corp. – leased 20,743 square feet at 4200-4222 Sarellen Rd.; and Dominion Uniserv Unit, Inc. – renewed its lease of 1,004 square feet in the Koger Building at 8001 Franklin Farms Dr.
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The threat of bad weather didn't keep visitors away from Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden July 10 for the facility's weekly Flowers After 5 event (which pairs music and food with a chance to stroll the garden) and its monthly Fidos After 5 (which allows dog owners to bring their pets with them to enjoy the evening). > Read more.
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The James River Association negotiated the deal with VDOT to procure official access to the area located just east of I-295 on North Airport Road in Sandston. The site includes a park-and-ride commuter lot bordering the Chickahominy River and has been an unofficial launch site used by paddlers for years. > Read more.
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There are some early surprises in the Big 12 Conference, which is still setting up as the expected wide-open race.
The league's only undefeated teams are 12th-ranked Baylor (5-0, 2-0 Big 12) and No. 16 Texas Tech (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) with new coach and former quarterback Kliff Kingsbury.
And Texas, after going 1-2 in nonconference games with big losses to BYU and Mississippi, is 3-0 in the Big 12 after a season-shifting victory over Oklahoma last weekend in the Red River Rivalry that the Sooners had dominated recently.
"We're so fortunate to be in a conference," Longhorns coach Mack Brown said. "Teams that are independent, after they have some problems early don't have a chance to rebound and still save their season and have something to play for."
With eight weeks left in the regular season, the top five teams in the league standings still have to play each other, except for that 36-20 win by Texas (4-2) over the 18th-ranked Sooners (5-1, 2-1).
"Our league is exciting this year because there is not 'A' team that everybody can pick," Brown said. "It's already changed two or three times."
Meanwhile, defending Big 12 champion Kansas State is 0-3 in conference play going into an open date.
"It's a strong belief of ours that anybody can defeat anyone else on any given day," coach Bill Snyder said. "I think that's proving out right now."
When Big 12 coaches submitted their preseason ballots back in July, six different teams got first-place votes. Texas Tech wasn't one of them, and was picked to finish seventh.
"I think it's the same way if we had looked at it in August, you look at it and say it's a wide-open race," Baylor coach Art Briles said during the weekly teleconference with Big 12 coaches. "Nothing has changed as we're into October. I don't think it's a surprise to anybody."
Except maybe the early order of the teams.
Baylor, which averaged more than 70 points is first four games, survived its first road test. They Bears won 35-25 Saturday at Kansas State, which was intent of avenging the lopsided loss from last season when the Wildcats got to Waco as the No. 1 team in the BCS standings.
No. 21 Oklahoma State (4-1, 1-1) was the preseason favorite by the coaches to win the league, just ahead of the Sooners.
The Cowboys had an early loss at West Virginia (3-3, 1-2), which has alternated wins and losses all season.
"There's a lot of parity in this league. I've said this for a number of years now," Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said. "It's increasing each season."
Consider that in the past seven years, only Texas in 2009 went undefeated in Big 12 play, and that was on the way to playing in the BCS national championship game.
Kansas State and Oklahoma State shared the league title with one Big 12 loss last year, when six other teams were either 5-4 or 4-5 in league play.
The Cowboys, coming off an open date, host TCU (3-3, 1-2) on Saturday. Texas doesn't play this week before going on the road to play the Longhorns.
TCU coach Gary Patterson would prefer the Big 12 play its conference games in consecutive weeks without open dates.
"I think it's an unfair advantage when people have off weeks," Patterson said. "The thing I'd change about what we do in the league, once we get into it, we play, we don't have any off weeks. ... So it's all even."
Patterson, who will get an extra week to prepare for Baylor in late November, knows television helps dictate the schedule. And there could be some high drama with late-season games having potential Big 12 championship implications.
While there are a lot of games left before then, Texas Tech plays at Texas on Thanksgiving night. The regular season ends the first Saturday in December with the Longhorns at Baylor, and Oklahoma going to Oklahoma State.
The Sooners have to quickly get over the Red River Rivalry loss. They are at Kansas on Saturday before games against Texas Tech and Baylor.
"Our season, win or lose through (the Texas) game, isn't the end-all," Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said.
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By BEN JOHNSON
Sports Editor
Kyler Harris was Mitch Stevenson's favorite target for the Muskogee Roughers in 2009. Harris was also Victor Williams' go-to wide receiver before Harris blew out his right knee in 2010.
Now, in 2012, Division II quarterbacks — more specifically, quarterbacks in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association — are trying to avoid throwing in his direction. Not bad for Harris, Northeastern State's starting strong safety who considers himself an offensive player by trade.
"I am much further progressed from where I was last year," said Harris, a 6-foot, 180-pound sophomore. "Last year, I was kind of a little raw. I'd mainly been an offensive player before I came here and the coaches wanted me to focus on being a safety. I've really learned a lot."
He certainly has.
After recording only 12 tackles and one interception as a part-time fill-in for the RiverHawks in 2011, Harris is already off to a solid start this season. He had seven tackles and one interception against Pittsburg State in a 41-20 loss at Doc Wadley Stadium in Week 1.
Harris' interception against Pitt State quarterback Anthony Abenoja came on a play that NSU and Harris had seen film on prior to the start of the season.
"We worked on that play several times," said Harris, who catapulted himself across the line of scrimmage to intercept a pass intended for Pitt State wide receiver Luke Rampy on a bubble screen route. "I hadn't picked one in practice, but I guess I just read it fast enough to get there."
Also contributing to Harris' development at safety is his sidekick at free safety, Victor Johnson. The Oklahoma State transfer has taken Harris under his wing and taught him the ropes in the defensive backfield.
"Victor has been in some big games, and those two communicate between each other a lot," NSU head coach Kenny Evans said. "There is nothing like the experience (Harris) is gaining from working next to someone like that."
Harris said he certainly sees Johnson as a mentor.
"He gives me a different mindset when we come into games," Harris said. "Most of the time I'm worried about playing my position, but then there are times when he tells me to let loose and play."
Out of high school, Harris had drawn interest from colleges such as Louisiana-Monroe and Central Arkansas. But in the end, Harris ended up where both of his parents earned degrees from.
Evans said it was just a matter of sticking with Harris throughout the recruiting process.
"He was recruited pretty heavily early on and was offered Division I," Evans said of Harris, who missed most of senior year at Muskogee after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament. "We stuck with him and continued to recruit him. His father played football here, which was a big help.
"We knew that he was a great athlete that had a big upside."
This week, Harris and the RiverHawks will switch gears on defense in preparing for Missouri Southern's triple-option attack on offense. Rather than facing a balanced Pitt State offense, NSU will square with a team that ran the ball 63 times — with nine different ball carriers — for 249 yards in a 25-20 victory over Central Oklahoma.
"We have to make sure to come up and hit fast," Harris said of the game plan for the defensive backs against Missouri Southern. "But at the same time, we are DB's and we have to play pass first. We have guys up front who can make plays; we just have to make sure to trust them and not do too much."


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