id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9115 European People's Party - Wikipedia .html text/html 7735 990 64 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.[6][7][8][9][10] On 20 November 2019 the party elected as its President the former Prime Minister of Poland and President of the European Council, Donald Tusk.[11] The EPP includes major centre-right parties such as the CDU/CSU of Germany, The Republicans of France, CD&V of Belgium, PNL of Romania, Fine Gael of Ireland, National Coalition Party of Finland, New Democracy of Greece, Forza Italia of Italy, the People's Party (PP) of Spain, the Civic Platform of Poland and the Social Democratic Party of Portugal, but also the right-wing populist Fidesz of Hungary. It aims at the political unification of a democratic Europe, the development of the EPP on the basis of Christian social teaching, and the defence of workers' interests in European policy-making. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9115.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9115.txt