Brussels, 24/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European People's Party will, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Polish trade union Solidarnosc, hold an extraordinary summit to be attended by the Polish and Spanish Prime Ministers, Jerzy Busek and José Maria Aznar, and by German CDU leader Angela Merkel.
A press release announces several elements of a draft resolution from the EPP affirming that the events of 1980 in Poland "continue to inspire us", and that solidarity remains the "hallmark of our vision of Europe and of a Union which cannot be complete until it includes the nation where Solidarity was born". The EPP, which hopes the applicant countries will be able to join as soon as possible, states its conviction that "without solidarity in Europe as a whole, the Union can be no more than a technical arrangement. (…) Our commitment is to a Union worthy of the name, a union of solidarity".