The European Christian Political Movement, abbreviated to ECPM, is a political party at European level that unites national parties from across Europe that share Christian democratic politics. The member parties are generally more socially conservative and Eurosceptic than the European People's Party. The ECPM unites parties from a Christian social view.
The party was founded in November 2002 in Lakitelek, Hungary. It elected its first board in January 2005, and was registered in the Netherlands in September 2005. The ECPM is chaired by Peeter Võsu of the Party of Estonian Christian Democrats. The party has twenty members from across fifteen countries. Youth movements are also welcome in the European Christian Political Youth Network that started in 2004 and installed its first board in summer 2005.
The ECPM member parties have one Member of the European Parliament, Peter van Dalen of ChristianUnion from the Netherlands, who sits with the European Conservatives and Reformists.
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