In the middle of the week, the Christian Democratic Party (EPP) family will meet for its two-day congress in Bucharest. The strongest European force with Manfred Weber (CSU) at the head of the parliamentary group and the party is going into the election campaign with a lot of tailwinds. The EPP is doing well in the polls. The manifesto with which the EPP candidates are entering the European election campaign will be adopted on Wednesday afternoon. The paper is around 15 pages long and is so broadly worded that it covers the ideological spectrum of all member parties from 44 countries. In other words, it contains virtually no rough edges.