LUCIANO BARDI, WOJCIECH GAGATEK, CARINE GERMOND, KARL MAGNUS JOHANSSON, WOLFRAM KEISER, SILVIA SASSANO The European Ambition. The Group of the European People’s Party and European Integration
LUCIANO BARDI, WOJCIECH GAGATEK, CARINE GERMOND, KARL MAGNUS JOHANSSON, WOLFRAM KEISER, SILVIA SASSANO The European Ambition. The Group of the European People’s Party and European Integration

Summary/Abstract: The book by Luciano Bardi, Wojciech Gagatek, Carine Germond, Karl MagnusJohansson, Wolfram Keiser, Silvia Sassano, „The European Ambition. The Group ofthe European People’s Party and European Integration” is the result of the six authors’cooperation and research on the evolution and activities of the Christian DemocraticGroup (CD) and then the European People’s Party (EPP). It constitutes a contributionto a series of publications analyzing the evolution of the European political groupings andtheir unique influence on the politics and development of the European Union. In the firstpart of the work, Wolfram Keiser characterizes the genesis, nature and evolution of theCD/EPP Group. In this chapter, author does not shy away from showing the politicaland historical background of the decisions made by the EPP. In the second chapter wefind an in-depth analysis of the impact that the EPP had on the development of furtherinstitutional reforms and preparation of the EU treaties, including an exceptional impact onthe constitutionalization and strengthening of the position of the European Parliament (EP).Carine Germond in the third part analyzes the role of the Group in creating and conductingpolicy within the European Union. She chose four most important areas: economic andmonetary policy, social, ecological/environmental and agricultural policy for her analysis.Chapter four offers considerations on the impact and shaping of another important sphere– the EU’s external relations, including foreign security and defense, trade (including foreigntrade), development policy and finally the EU enlargement policy. In chapter five, LucianoBardi deals with the EPP from the perspective a political party and its influence on thedevelopment of the European party system. He placed the analysis of the EPP’s position asa key actor on the European Parliament’s party scene in the context of the EPP’s role inrelations with EU institutions, in the foreground with the EP, but also with the Commissionand the European Council. The work is based on the analysis of program documents, electionmanifestos of one of the most important political groups at the pan-European level, whichhave still the greatest influence on political decisions made in the EU. It must be stressed,this is valuable and very interesting

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