Today, at its federal party conference in Berlin, the CDU is adopting the fourth basic program in its history – after 1978, 1994 and 2007. In it, the Union makes a very fundamental commitment to Europe: the two-page chapter on Europe begins with the sentence: „We are the German European party.“ The Union is prepared to hand further national competencies to Europe. However, the „core identity of our German constitution“ must be strengthened, it says. For example, by strengthening the national constitutional courts within the European Association of Constitutional Courts.