PPE Congress, in Bucharest, 2,000 participants from 40 countries

This week, Bucharest will be the capital of the popular Europeans. The Congress of the European People's Party begins today at Romexpo, in the presence of over 2,000 delegates from over 40 countries. Within the EPP Congress, the strategy for the elections for the European Parliament, the manifesto of the European People's Party, but also the choice of the party's main candidate, the president of the European Commission, the German Ursula von der Leyen, who will be designated within the Congress as the official candidate for head of the European Commission. The Austrian chancellor, Karl Nehammer, who opposed Romania's accession to the Schengen Area, will also participate in the event. The National Liberal Party is hosting in Bucharest (Romexpo) the Congress of the European People's Party, a large-scale event, in partnership with the European People's Party, the largest political family in Europe. The coming of the EPP to Bucharest represents a sign of solidarity of the entire European Union with Romania and the states in the vicinity of the war started by Russia in Ukraine, PNL announced. The President of PNL, Nicolae Ciucă, stated that Bucharest will become "the political center of Europe" through the Congress organized in Romania. "At the invitation of the PNL, the most important heads of state and government from the European Union are coming to Romania to decide the future of Europe", he said, referring to the EPP Congress.

The President of the European People's Party (EPP), Manfred Weber spoke about the congress: "In a few days I will go to Bucharest. I am excited about this because we will decide on the manifesto - the ideas for the future. We will also decide on our main candidate, on who will represent us during the European campaign and become the next President of the Commission. The EPP is the power of Europe". The President of the European Commission, the German Ursula von der Leyen, aged 65, announced her recently, in Berlin, at a meeting of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU, center-right), of which she is a member and who supports her , that he will run for a new mandate. The European deputy Siegfried Mureşan announced that 11 heads of state and government from the European Union, together with the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, confirmed their presence at the Congress of the European People's Party on March 6-7 in Bucharest. Mureşan also presented the full list of heads of state and government and EU leaders who will speak at the congress: President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen - President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola - President of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber - the president of Romania, Klaus Iohannis - the prime minister of Finland, Petteri Orpo - the prime minister of Luxembourg, Luc Frieden - the prime minister of Sweden, Ulf Kristerrson - the president of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides - the chancellor of Austria, Karl Nehammer - the prime minister of Ireland, Leo Varadkar - the prime minister of Croatia, Andrej Plenkovic - the prime minister of Poland, Donald Tusk - the prime minister of Greece, Kyriakos Misotakis - the prime minister of Lithuania, Ingrida Simonyte.