By Thomas Jansen
Describes the origins (since 1925), the basis (1978) and the evolution (until this present day) of the 'European People's celebration' and indicates how political events are very important to the mixing strategy in the eu Union. The ebook examines the emergence of a transnational social gathering process to which the Christian Democrats give a contribution with the EPP along the Social Democrats (ESP) and the Liberal Democrats (ELDR). The research of the political, structural and programmatic improvement of the EPP indicates truly that eu politics became to a wide quantity family affairs and vice versa.
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In the end, this is also what political parties – of whatever political colour – need. If they want to achieve anything on a European level they have to belong to a multi-national group, one which is as supranational as possible; it also has to be large enough to be politically effective. But this also corresponds to the politics of the end of the age of ideology, which has advanced the cause of essentially non-ideological people’s parties. The centre of gravity of parties is no longer the ideology of its leading elites, but the economic and social, or political and cultural, interests of those who support them in elections.
Furthermore, several Christian Democratic parties had held on to power over this whole period; their interest in the weak NEI structures progressively declined. The machinery of government offered such party leaderships perfectly adequate means to communicate, and reach agreement, with their partners in other countries. The fact that the NEI crisis reached its climax at the beginning of the sixties is explained by the growing tensions inside the Mouvement Républicain Populaire, and the difficulties created for French Christian Democrats by the return to power of General de Gaulle.
All of this explains why the Social Democrats could not avoid accepting post-Communists and others from a left-wing tradition, just as the EPP has admitted conservative, liberal, and other ‘bourgeois’ forces. It is therefore probable that during the European Parliament’s current legislature (1994 to 1999), further changes will occur in the groups. These will result from the efforts of the two largest groups to consolidate their areas of influence and their composition. Gradually those elements which belong together in this new situation will come together.
