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'''Partai Rakyat Eropa''' (''European People's Party''; '''EPP''') adalah [[partai politik Eropa]] yang didirikan oleh partai-partai [[demokrasi Kristen|Demokrat Kristen]] pada tahun 1976, namun saat ini keanggotaannya mencakup partai-partai [[konservatisme|konservatif]] dan aliran [[tengah-kanan]] lainnya.<ref>{{cite book|title=The New World Architecture: The Role of the European Union in the Making of Global Governance|last=Magone|first=José María|year=2006|publisher=Transaction Publishers|location=New York|isbn=978-0-7658-0279-8|page=130|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OzCwCrK5zekC|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Origin, Ideology and Transformation of Political Parties: East-Central and Western Europe Compared|last1=Hloušek|first1=Vít|last2=Kopeček|first2=Lubomír|year=2010|publisher=Ashgate Publishing|location=London|isbn=978-0-7546-7840-3|page=11|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K79sdX-amEgC|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Comparative European Politics|last1=Colomer|first1=Josep Maria|year=2008|publisher=Taylor & Francis|location=London|isbn=978-0-415-43755-4|page=288|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=18aSGqADApUC|accessdate=}}</ref><ref name="Pehrson2009">{{cite book|author=Lars Pehrson|title=How Unified Is the European Union?: European Integration Between Visions and Popular Legitimacy|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=N8tL9yHvTFwC&pg=PA160|date=12 June 2009|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-540-95855-0|pages=160–}}</ref>
EPP sudah menjadi partai terbesar di [[Parlemen Eropa]] sejak 1999 dan [[Dewan Eropa]] sejak 2002. EPP juga merupakan partai terbesar di [[Komisi Eropa]] periode ini. [[Presiden Dewan Eropa]] dan [[Presiden Komisi Eropa]] adalah anggota EPP. Sebagian besar [[bapak pendiri Uni Eropa]] juga berasal dari partai-partai pendiri EPP. Di luar UE, EPP merupakan partai mayoritas di [[Majelis Parlementer Dewan Eropa]]. EPP dan [[Partai Sosialis Eropa]] (PES) sudah berkali-kali menjadi partai politik Eropa terbesar di Uni Eropa.
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== Daftar pustaka ==
*{{Cite book|first=Thomas|last=Jansen|title=The European People's Party: Origins and Development|publisher=MacMillans|year=1998|ref=harv}}
*{{Cite book|first1=Thomas|last1=Jansen|first2=Steven|last2=Van Hecke|title=At Europe's Service: The Origins and Evolution of the European People's Party|publisher=Springer|year=2011|isbn=978-3-642-19413-9|lccn=2011927265|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-19414-6|ref=harv}}
* {{Cite book|first=Wolfram|last=Kaiser|title=Transnational Christian Democracy: From the Nouvelles Equipes Internationales to the European People's Party|editor1=Michael Gehler|editor2=Wolfram Kaiser|work=Christian Democracy in Europe since 1945|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|isbn=0-7146-5662-3|pages=194–208}}
