05/09/2023 (Agence Europe) – The European Christian Democrat family will meet at a Congress in Bucharest (Romania) in spring 2024 at the invitation of the Partidul Naţional Liberal, the Political Assembly of the European People’s Party (EPP) decided on Tuesday 5 September in Brussels. The Lithuanian and Portuguese delegations had also offered to host the congress at which the EPP would adopt its manifesto and nominate a candidate to head the list for the European elections in June 2024. If the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is a candidate for her own succession, she will have to declare her candidacy by this deadline, unless she covets the post of Secretary General of NATO. On Tuesday, the President of the S&D Group in the European Parliament, Iratxe García Pérez, confirmed that a first congress of European Socialists will be held in Spain in mid-November, before a second congress in early 2024 to focus on preparations for the European elections. (MB/AD)