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XVIth EPP CONGRESS
The EPP: Your Majority in Europe

4 - 5 February 2004
European Parliament
BRUSSELS

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XVIth EPP Congress
Wilfried Martens, President of the EPP Party
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Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament
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José María Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain
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Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of The Netherlands
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Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy
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José Manuel Durão Barroso, Prime Minister of Portugal
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Mikuláš Dzurinda, Prime Minister of Slovakia
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Edward Fenech Adami, Prime Minister of Malta
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Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
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Juhan Parts, Prime Minister of Estonia
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Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
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Ivo Sanader, Prime Minister of Croatia and Chairman of the HDZ Party (Croatian Democratic Union)
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Angela Merkel, Chairman of the German CDU
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Victor Orbán, EPP Vice-President (FIDESZ - Hungary)
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Jan Rokita, Chairman of the Civic Platform Party of Poland
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Janez Jansa, Chairman of the SDS Party(Slovenia)
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Daniel Bautista,  Chairman of the EPP-Association Youth of the European People's Party (YEPP)
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Bernhard Worms, Chairman of the European Senior Citizens’ Union
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Peter Jungen, Vice-President of SME-Union
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Alexandros Sinka, Chairman of the European Democrat Students (EDS), EPP Association
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Elmar Brok (EPP-ED, Germany), Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy of the European Parliament
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Jan Petersen, Head of the Hoyre Party (Norway)
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Bendt Bendtsen, Leader of the Danish DKF Party
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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Convention
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Wilhelm Molterer, Chairman of the ÖVP parliamentary group in the Austrian Parliament
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Kostas Karamanlis, Leader of the Greek Nea Dimokratia (ND)
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Viktor Yuschenko, former Prime Minister of the Ukraine
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Nicos Anastasiades, Leader of DISY Party, Cyprus
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Abdullah Gul, Turkish Minister of External Affairs
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Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway
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Nahezhda Mihaylova, Vice-President of the EPP Party (Bulgaria)
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Fredrik Reinfeldt, Leader of the Swedish Moderaterna Party
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Wilfried Martens, President of the EPP Party (in the middle), Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France (on the right), and Antonio López-Istúriz, Secretary-General of the EPP Party
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Nahezhda Mihaylova, Vice-President of the EPP Party (Bulgaria), and Bendt Bendtsen, Leader of the Danish DKF Party
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José María Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain
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Antonio López-Istúriz, Secretary-General of the EPP Party
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Jorge Hernández Mollar (EPP-ED, Spain), Guillermo Martinez Casán, MP Spanish Congress, María Antonia Avilés Perea (EPP-ED, Spain), and Pilar Ayuso González (EPP-ED, Spain)
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Ivo Sanader, Prime Minister of Croatia and Chairman of HDZ Party (Croatian Democratic Union) (on the left), and Mikulas Dzurinda, Prime Minister of Slovakia and Chairman of SDKU
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Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of The Netherlands (on the right), Edward Fenech Adami, Prime Minister of Malta (2nd from left), Guy Korthoudt, Deputy Secretary-General of the EPP (3rd from left)
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Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian Observer (TS (LK) Homeland Union) in the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, and Sali Berisha, Chairman of PDSH (Albania)
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Othmar Karas (Treasurer, EPP-ED, Austria) (on the left) and Ivo Sanader, Prime Minister of Croatia and Chairman of the HDZ Party (Croatian Democratic Union)
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Francisca Bennasar Tous, former Spanish MEP (in the middle)
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Mikuláš Dzurinda, Prime Minister of Slovakia ) (on the left), and  Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament
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Egon A. Klepsch, former President of the European Parliament (on the left)
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l-r: Jorge Moragas, International Secretary of the Spanish Partido Popular, and Alejandro Agag, former Spanish MEP
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Javier Arenas, Vice-President of the Spanish Government and Vice-Secretary-General of the Partido Popular, and Ana Mato, coordinator of internal PP organisation
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l-r: José Manuel Durão Barroso, Prime Minister of Portugal, and José María Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain
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l-r: Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, José Manuel Durão Barroso, Prime Minister of Portugal, and José María Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain
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Wilfried Martens, President of the EPP Party (on the right), and Antonio López-Istúriz, Secretary-General of the EPP Party
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from the right: Wilfried Martens, President of the EPP Party, Antonio López-Istúriz, Secretary-General of the EPP Party, José María Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain, José Manuel Durão Barroso, Prime Minister of Portugal, and Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of The Netherlands
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l-r: Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, and Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament
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Jean-Luc Dehaene, Vice-Chairman of the European Convention (on the left), and Iñigo Mendez de Vigo (EPP-ED, Spain)
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Bendt Bendtsen, Chairman of the Danish DKF Party (on the left), and Ingo Friedrich, Vice-President of the European Parliament (EPP-ED, Germany)
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l-r: Gérard Deprez (EPP-ED, Belgium) and Jean-Louis Bourlanges (EPP-ED, France)
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Front row, l-r: Ott Lumi, Secretary-General, Res Publica, Estonia and Urmas Reinsalu MP, Res Publica, Estonia
Back row, l-r: Eiki Berg (EPP-ED Observer, Res Publica, Estonia) and 
Juhan Parts, Prime Minister of Estonia
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Tunne Kelam, Chairman of PPU (Pro Patria Union, Estonia) and Berit Teeäär, Press Advisor of the EPP-ED Group for Estonia
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l-r: Ana Perles, Ministry of Health, Spain, Javier Figaredo, Ministry of Justice, Spain, and Manolo Pérez Álvarez, Marcelino Oreja Arburúa and Juan Ojeda Sanz (all EPP-ED, Spain)
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(l-r) José Ignacio Salafranca (EPP-ED, Spain), Maria Antonia Avilés Perea (EPP-ED, Spain), María del Pilar Ayuso González (EPP-ED, Spain), Juan José Bayona de Perogordo (EPP-ED, Spain) and Carlos Iturgaiz, President of the Partido Popular in the Basque Country
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l-r:  Anne-Marie Schaffner (EPP-ED, France), and Françoise Grossetête, Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament
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Felipe Camisón Asensio (EPP-ED, Spain) (left)
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Representatives of the EPP Women Association
on the right: Chairman Marlene Lenz, former Member of the European Parliament
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l-r: Paul Keogh, TD, Mark Kennelly, International Secretary of Fine Gael (Ireland), and Robert A. Fitzhenry, Head of the EPP-ED Group Press Service
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Piet Bukman, former EPP President (in the middle), Bernhard Worms, Chairman of the European Senior Citizens’ Union (right)
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l-r: Riikka Kervinen, Secretary-General of YEPP (Youth of the European People's Party), and Anna Anttinen, President of the Kokoomus Student Organisation (Finland)
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Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED-Group in the European Parliament, giving an interview
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Fredrik Reinfeldt, Leader of the Swedish Moderaterna Party
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l-r: Leo Delcroix, former Minister of Defence for Belgium, and René van der Linden MP, Chairman of the EPP Group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
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Jos Chabert, Minister for Public Works, Brussels Regional Government (on the left), and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Convention
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Mikulas Dzurinda, Prime Minister of Slovakia (on the right) and Jacek Protasiewicz (EPP-ED Observer, Poland)
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Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED-Group in the European Parliament, giving an interview
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l-r: Gitte Seeberg MP, Vice-Chairman of the Danish Conservative Parliamentary Group, Lars Kjølbye, International Secretary of the Danish Conservative Parliamentary Group, Bendt Bendtsen, Leader of the Danish DKF Party, and Niels Pedersen, Secretary-General of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament
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Michel Barnier, Commissioner of the EU (in the middle), with Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Convention (on the right)
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l-r: Marie-Hélène Descamps (EPP-ED, France), Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France, Françoise Grossetête, Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group (France), and Hugues Martin (EPP-ED, France)
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l-r: Marie-Thérèse Hermange and Marie-Hélène Descamps (both EPP-ED, France), Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France, Françoise Grossetête, Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group (France), Hugues Martin (EPP-ED, France), and Claude du Granrut, Regional Councillor of Picardie
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Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
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Pierre Lequiller, EPP Vice-President
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l-r: René van der Linden MP, Chairman of the EPP Group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and Jean-Luc Dehaene, former Prime Minister of Belgium and Vice-Chairman of the European Convention
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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Convention (on the left), and Michel Barnier, Commissioner of the EU
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Ivo Sanader, Prime Minister of Croatia and Chairman of the HDZ Party (Croatian Democratic Union)
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László Surján, Observer in the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament - FIDESZ/MPP (Hungary)
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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Convention
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l-r: Hartmut Nassauer, Head of the German delegation in the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, and Michael Gahler (EPP-ED, Germany)
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l-r: Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, with the plenipotentiary of the "Bund der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg", the Councillor of State, Reinhard Stuth
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Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy
EPP-ED Group meeting in preparation of the XVIth EPP Congress
(l-r): Angela Merkel, Chairman of the CDU, Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, and Niels Pedersen, Secretary-General of the EPP-ED Group
EPP-ED Group meeting in preparation of the XVIth EPP Congress
Angela Merkel, Chairman of the CDU, and José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament
EPP-ED Group meeting in preparation of the XVIth EPP Congress
Wilfried Martens, President of the EPP Party
Opening of the XVIth EPP Congress
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Wilfried Martens, President of the EPP Party (middle), Antonio López-Istúriz, Secretary-General of the EPP Party (left), and Jos Chabert, Minister for Public Works, Brussels Regional Government
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l-r: Paolo Barbi, former Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, and Jacques Santer (EPP-ED, Luxembourg)
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l-r: Jos Chabert, Minister for Public Works, Brussels Regional Government, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Vice-Chairman of the European Convention, and Hans August Lücker, former Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament
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Bo Lundgren, EPP Vice-President
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l-r: Wilhelm Molterer, Chairman of the ÖVP parliamentary group in the Austrian Parliament, and Othmar Karas, Treasurer of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament Austria)
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l-r: Alain Lamassoure (EPP-ED, France) and Peter Hintze, EPP Vice-President
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Fernand Herman, former MEP and former Belgian Minister, Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, Joëlle Milquet, Chairman of the Belgian CDH Party, Antonio López-Istúriz, Secretary-General of the EPP Party,
Wilfried Martens, President of the EPP Party, and Yves Leterme, Chairman of Belgian CD&V Party
Press Conference on current European policy issues
Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group, and 
Angela Merkel, Chairman of the CDU
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l-r: Javier Arenas, Vice-President of the Spanish Government and Vice-Secretary-General of the Partido Popular, and Gerardo Galeote Quecedo, Head of the Spanish Delegation in the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament
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l-r: Javier Arenas, Vice-President of the Spanish Government and Vice-Secretary-General of the Partido Popular, and Gerardo Galeote Quecedo, Head of the Spanish Delegation in the EPP-ED Group
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Joëlle Milquet, Chairman of the Belgian CDH Party
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Yves Leterme, Chairman of Belgian CD&V Party
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l-r: Carlos Iturgaiz, Chairman of Partido Popular of the Basque country, Antonio López-Istúriz, Secretary-General of the EPP Party, and Marcelino Oreja Arburúa (EPP-ED, Spain)
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Martin Kastler (EPP-ED, Germany) (on the left) and József Berényi, State Secretary of the Slovak Foreign Affairs Ministry
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Jacques Santer (EPP-ED, Luxembourg), former President of the European Commission (right), and Thomas Janssen, former Secretary-General of the EPP Party
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Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo and Chairman of LDK Party (Democratic League of Kosovo) (left)
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Loyola de Palacio Vallelersundi, Vice-President of the European Commission, and Hans August Lücker, former Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament
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l-r: Alain Lamassoure (EPP-ED, France) and  Peter Hintze, Member of the German Bundestag and EPP Vice-President
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Raquel Cardoso (EPP-ED, Portugal)
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Corien Wortmann-Kool, Ministry of Transport of the Netherlands, and Cees Bremmer (EPP-ED, The Netherlands)
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Wilfried Martens, President of the EPP Party (on the left), with Dario Antoniozzi, former MEP and former Italian Minister for scientific research and technology
EPP-ED Group meeting in preparation of the XVIth EPP Congress
Wilfried Martens, President of the EPP Party (on the right), and Fernand Herman, former MEP and former Belgian Minister
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