EPP Summit

The European People's Party has press released here that it's European parliament group, national leaders, and leaders of the opposition are having a summit before the next European Council meeting.It says, that, quote,
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"The EPP candidate for President of the European Commission Jean-Claude JUNCKER will be present."

This sort of behaviour sheds some light on why the leaders of these parties, including some who are sensible on many other issues, were so angry with David Cameron for pulling the Conservatives out of the EPP and working with other non-Federalist centre-right parties to set up the ECR (European Conservatives and Reformists) group which is now the third largest in the European Parliament.)

The EPP thinks and acts as if there were a European Demos (a functional, recognisable and coherent political electorate) with itself as the Europe wide centre-right party. If it were, many of their actions - like putting up Jean-Claude Juncker as a candidate for President of the Commission and thinking they have a right to expect people to support him because they came out as the largest group in the European Parliament - would make a bit more sense.

I don't believe there would be a functioning European Demos if the Conservatives and our allies were still in the EPP. But the fact that we're not makes it slightly more obvious that there isn't.

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