14 January 1992
Election of Egon KLEPSCH, Chairman of the EPP Group, as President of the European Parliament. Leo TINDEMANS is elected to succeed him as Chairman of the Group.

18 March 1992
Finland applies for membership.

1 May 1992
The British and Danish Conservative MEPs (together with some French UDF MEPs) join the EPP Group as allied members, bringing the total to 162 Members.

2 May 1992
The Treaty establishing the European Economic Area (the 12 member states of the Union plus the 7 member states of EFTA (Austria, Finland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland)) is signed in Oporto. Switzerland later rejected the Treaty by referendum on 6 December 1992.

June-September 1992
The Maastricht Treaty is rejected by referendum in Denmark, accepted in Ireland, and very narrowly accepted in France.

September 1992
Four French MEPs of the UDF, formerly in the Liberal Group, join the EPP Group.

11-13 November 1992
IX EPP Congress in Athens. Adoption of a new EPP Basic Programme.

25 November 1992
Norway applies for membership.

11/12 December 1992
The European Council meeting in Edinburgh decides on the location of the institutions, the financial perspective until 1999, and a new deal for Denmark.

1 January 1993
Entry into force of the Single Market.

18 May 1993
Maastricht Treaty accepted in a second referendum in Denmark.

23 June 1993
Fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Christian-Democrat Group in the ECSC Common Assembly.

1 November 1993
Maastricht Treaty enters into force marking the establishment of the European Union.

8-10 December 1993
X EPP Congress in Brussels. Adoption of the Action Plan for the EPP Group in the 1994-1999 parliamentary term: "Europe 2000 - Unity in Diversity".

1994
Following the establishment of the Committee of the Regions as a new institution of the European Union, the EPP Group was formed with 85 Members under the chairmanship of Jos CHABERT (CVP, Belgium).

1 April 1994
Hungary applies for membership.

8 April 1994
Poland applies for membership.

9-12 June 1994
Fourth direct elections to the European Parliament.

Overall turnout was 58.9 per cent . The EPP member parties won 125 seats in the fourth European elections. The incorporation of like-minded MEPs (British and Danish Conservatives and French Liberals) brought the total number of MEPs in the EPP to 157.

June-November 1994
Membership of the European Union endorsed by referendum in Austria, Finland, and Sweden but rejected in Norway.

July 1994
Wilfried MARTENS, formerly Prime Minister of Belgium, is elected Chairman of the EPP Group. Klaus WELLE elected Secretary-General of the EPP and the EUCD.

1 January 1995
Austria, Finland, and Sweden join the Union. The European Parliament now stands at 626 members.
Sixteen new members join the EPP Group: six from Austria, four from Finland and six from Sweden. Five parties join the EPP: the Austrian Österreichische Volkspartei, the Swedish Kristdemokratiska Samhällspartiet (now called Kristdemokraterna) and Moderata Samlingspartiet (Moderaterna), the Finnish Kansallinen Kokoomus and the Danish Konservative Folkeparti.

19 January 1995
New Commission under President Jacques SANTER endorsed by the European Parliament.

26 March 1995
Schengen Agreement enters into force in the Benelux countries, France, Germany, Portugal, and Spain.

22 June 1995
Romania applies for membership.

27 June 1995
Slovakia applies for membership.

27 October 1995
Latvia applies for membership.

6/7 November 1995
XI EPP Congress in Madrid: "EPP- Force of the Union". Adoption of the basic document: "Capacity to act - democracy and transparency; the European Union on the way to an United Europe (proposals and objectives for the Intergovernmental Conference in 1996)". Foundation of the European Senior Union (ESU).

28 November 1995
Estonia applies for membership.

8 December 1995
Lithuania applies for membership.

14 December 1995
Bulgaria applies for membership.

15/16 December 1995
Madrid European Council agrees that the single currency should be called the "euro".

1996
Wim van VELZEN elected President of EUCD. François BAYROU elected President of EPP Council.

Foundation of the Economic and Independent Business Association of the EPP.

17 January 1996
Czech Republic applies for membership.

29 March 1996
Opening in Turin of the Intergovernmental Conference on the revision of the Maastricht Treaty.

10 June 1996
Slovenia applies for membership.

11 November 1996
The Portuguese PSD becomes a full member of the European People's Party, and its MEPs join the EPP Group. The EPP Group has 180 members.

14 January 1997
José-María GIL-ROBLES GIL-DELGADO, Member of the EPP-ED Group, elected as President of the European Parliament.

February 1997
Founding Congress of the Youth of the EPP.

16/17 June 1997
European Council meeting in Amsterdam reaches agreement on a new treaty. The Treaty of Amsterdam is signed on 2 October 1997.

9-11 November 1997
XII EPP Congress in Toulouse: "We all belong to one world". Adoption of a Strategy paper on employment , and a Resolution on the enlargement of the European Union. Due to an amendment of the EPP statutes, integration of the EUCD parties into the EPP is definitively possible. Parties who are near to the EPP can be admitted now as associated members without requiring the condition of concrete application negociations to the EU with these countries, the simple demande of EU adhesion of these countries is sufficient.

21/22 November 1997
Jean-Claude JUNCKER, Christian-Democrat Prime Minister of Luxembourg, presides over special meeting of the European Council on employment.

12/13 December 1997
Luxembourg meeting of the European Council sets in train enlargement negotiations with effect from 1998.

June 1998
MEPs of Forza Italia join the EPP Group.

4-6 Februar 1999
XIII EPP Congress in Bruxelles: Adoption of the Action Programme for the fifth EP legislature "On the Way to the 21st Century". Re-election of Wilfried MARTENS as EPP President. Integration of EUCD into the EPP. Klaus WELLE is elected Secretary-General of the EPP Group in the EP. Alejandro AGAG LONGO, is elected Secretary-General of the EPP.

10-13 June 1999
Fifth direct elections to the European Parliament.

Overall turnout was 49.4 per cent.

The EPP Group becomes with 233 Members the largest political Group in the European Parliament.

The Socialist Group is composed by 180 Members.

July 1999
Election of Hans-Gert POETTERING as Chairman of the EPP-ED Group. Renaming of the EPP Group into "Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats".

The Members of the RPR (Gaullist) Party become allied members of the Group. Nicole FONTAINE, Member of the EPP-ED Group, elected as President of the European Parliament.

9 May 2000
Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Robert Schuman Declaration.

10 October 2000
Election of Wilfried MARTENS as President of the Christian-Democratic International and of Alejandro AGAG LONGO as Secretary-General in Santiago de Chile.

9 May 2000
Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Robert Schuman Declaration.

19-20 June 2000
Feira Summit ratifies Greece's entry into the eurozone.

27 June 2000
Death of Pierre Pflimlin (1907-2000).

7 September 2000
Adoption by the European Parliament of a resolution calling for a complete ban on human cloning.

28 September 2000
Negative result in the Danish referendum on the euro.

10 October 2000
Election of Wilfried MARTENS as President of the Christian-Democratic Internationale and of Alejandro AGAG LONGO as Secretary-General in Santiago de Chile.

2 October 2000
Adoption of the Charter of Fundamental Rights by the Convention.

7-8 December 2000
Nice Summit: amendment of Treaties ahead of enlargement of the European Union.