What we believe
We support Europe's largest political family, the EPP European People's Party.
Our political beliefs are based on the unique value of every person: the chance for each person to attain fulfilment and protection with dignity for the retired and vulnerable. We believe in the social market economy: each of those two words matters. From the destruction of 1945, we have made Europe's economy the World's largest and we have done this while providing guaranteed human rights, social solidarity and environmental protection: our shared EPP European Deal. |
Read the full interview between Dirk Hazell, the leader of 4 Freedoms Party (UK EPP), and EurActiv’s editor-in-chief Daniela Vincenti setting out our aims and beliefs.
Download a PDF of our 2014 Election Commitment to Londoners’ Jobs & Code of Conduct |
In the last five years, the EPP secured billions of pounds to get young people into work, help 4 million Europeans to train, and help 300,000 small firms.
The EPP simplified rules for small firms but strengthened consumer and health rights, environmental protection and external border controls. We support the 4 Freedoms in President FD Roosevelt’s iconic 1941 Address: freedoms of speech and faith, freedoms from want and fear. We also support the 4 core EU freedoms of movement of people, goods, services and capital. This is no licence to defraud social security. |
Chancellor Angela Merkel
addressing the British Parliament February 2014: We need to renew the political shape of Europe time and again so that Europe can continue to fulfil its second promise, the promise of freedom. Freedom of opinion, freedom of faith, freedom of the press as well as the four freedoms of the single market – the free movement of goods, the free movement of persons, the freedom to provide services and the free movement of payments and capital – these are the key prerequisites for democracy and prosperity, and they belong together! |
We believe government should be local to you. You know best what works for you. Brussels and Whitehall must listen to you.
EPP believes every person deserves the greatest chance of fulfilment while offering protection with dignity to the vulnerable and high standards of environment stewardship. British politicians not “Brussels” are responsible for problems like housing shortages, educational and training shortfalls, archaic transport, aircraft carriers without planes, and substandard cancer care. The truth is London needs Europe and Europe needs London: we all need reform! |